Age Quote by Dave Beard

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

— Michael Ondaatje

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

— Brian Harris

“O, if I say, you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name…

— William Shakespeare

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

— John Dryden