Behavior Quote by B. F. Skinner

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists…

— Allen Tate

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt