Glorious Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd…

— Walt Whitman

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a…

— Martin Langford

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

— Victor Hugo

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit…

— Rae Armantrout

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to…

— William Cowper