Poetry Quote by Daniel Mendelsohn

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

— John Smyth

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams

“...The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.”

— Philip Roth

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone…

— Franz Grillparzer

“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.”

— Marne L. Kilates

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato