Bells Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and…

— Rita Dove

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

“they say of the poet and the madmn we all have a little”

— Luis J. Rodriguez

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them…

— Charles Dickens

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.”

— Pierre Albert-Birot

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is…

— Wallace Stevens

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman