Beats Quote by Brad Leithauser

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

— Seamus Heaney

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a…

— Michael Jackson

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

— S.M. Stirling

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

— Paul Claudel

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

— T. S. Eliot

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the…

— Allen Tate

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

— Kim Hyesoon

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

Every heart has its own melody.

— Cassandra Clare