Poetry Quote by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“If you have to ask, what a poem is all about. You didn't feel it. ~ ”

— Lady Bug

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next to the…

— Christopher Korenczuk

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

— Len Jenkin

“I feel too much, I leave too much unsaid, I think too much, I chew on words unspoken, jagged edges carve me up, gnashing…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”

— Laini Taylor

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

— J. David Gray

“Poetry is the voice of the heart.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.”

— John Cage