Poetry Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

“Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.”

— Adrienne Rich

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have…

— Ava Dellaira

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow