Poetry Unless Quotes
- But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. — Jeffery Deaver
- We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. — Henry David Thoreau
- A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand
- Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature… — Robert Graves