Flourish Quote by Derek Walcott

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

— Sharon Creech

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

— Derek Walcott

“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

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors…

— Paul Beatty

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

You were the sort of boy people wrote poetry about, so that's exactly what I did.

— Anonymous

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

— Marilyn Nelson

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe