Heroic Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,…

— John Keats

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

— Howard Nemerov

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the…

— Edward Hirsch

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

— Stephane Mallarme

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored…

— Florence King

All poetry comes from repetition.

— Kenneth Koch