Crucial Quote by Harold Bloom

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it…

— Harold Bloom

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

— Elaine Equi

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

— Northrop Frye

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

— Paul Valery

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin