Poetry Quote by Harold Bloom

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry

“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”

— Russell Edson

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we…

— Bill Willingham

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow