Impassioned Quote by Emma Lazarus

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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

— Jack Gleeson

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

— Kenneth Koch

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic