Aim Quote by George Chapman

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any…

— George Oppen

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

— Robert Pinsky

I have been eating poetry.

— Mark Strand

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or…

— Rene Char

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will…

— A. E. Housman

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe