Humming Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem…

— Jane Campion

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

— Jane Campion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think…

— Derek Walcott

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

— Jane Campion

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you…

— Anonymous

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off…

— John Ashbery