Bits Quote by Blake Morrison

“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”

— Alok Mishra

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

— Tupac Shakur

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

— Louis Untermeyer

“I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it.”

— James Goldman

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“The Poet" The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak and precious…

— Delmore Schwartz

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

“Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In the poems,…

— Joy Katz

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to…

— Peter Davison

“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I would say.…

— Sylvia Plath

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

— Andrew Motion

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath