Made Quote by Denise Duhamel

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon

“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual body can…

— Kazim Ali

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,…

— Walt Whitman

“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people…

— Terri Windling

“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

“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”

— Wallace Stegner

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

— Luci Shaw

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson