Art Quote by Barbara Holland

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write…

— Matthew Zapruder

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer