Knows Quote by Cesare Pavese

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

— Samuel Johnson

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

— William Carlos Williams

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

— Peleg Top

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens