Inspirational Quote by C. S. Lewis

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it…

— W. H. Auden

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

— A. E. Housman

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you…

— May Sarton

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines,…

— Derek Walcott

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall