Character Quote by Franz Grillparzer

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

— Adrienne Rich

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn…

— James Dickey

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire