Community Quote by George Orwell

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining…

— Sam Hamill

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus