People Quote by Edwin Morgan

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

— Hortense Calisher

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

— Henrik Ibsen