Poetry Quote by Charles Bukowski

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth