Goal Quote by Donald Hall

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something…

— Alice Oswald

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni