Happens Quote by Dorothea Lasky

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

— Anonymous

The real thing creates its own poetry.

— Anzia Yezierska

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the…

— Allen Ginsberg

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson