Poetry Quote by Cassandra Clare

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.”

— José Gouveia

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound…

— N.M. Lombardi

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

— James Joyce

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar