Poetry Quote by Benedict Smith

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

— Anne Carson

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

— Robert Bringhurst

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

“What we eat is a poem.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.”

— Dennis Vickers

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller