Constructs Quote by Fernando Pessoa

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed -…

— Michael Rosen

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”

— Kij Johnson

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

— Alice Munro

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

— E. W. Howe

“Again I quoted a poet—to avoid sounding like a preacher myself —who had written, "Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben."…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I…

— Jack Prelutsky

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

— John Keats