Good Poetry Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack… — June Jordan
• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Alfred Douglas
• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S.… — Marcus Mumford
• Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might… — Robert Burns
• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even… — Amiri Baraka
• Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn
• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I… — Marcus Mumford
• The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley
• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
• Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see… — David Whyte
• Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell
• There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. — Augustus William Hare
• Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves — Lorna Goodison
• Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
• one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid — Charles Bukowski
• Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is… — Henry David Thoreau
• The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan
• Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret' — Hafiz Of Persia

Who Wrote These Good Poetry Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Good Poetry Quotes as follows:

• 2 Good Poetry Quotes by Marcus Mumford
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Alfred Douglas
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Robert Burns
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Amiri Baraka
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Thom Gunn
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Michael Longley
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Ezra Pound
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by David Whyte
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Richard Hell
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Augustus William Hare
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Lorna Goodison
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by Hafiz Of Persia
• 1 Good Poetry Quote by June Jordan