Advice Quote by Harriet Monroe

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“he world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way…

— L.M. Montgomery

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that…

— Sidney Lanier

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have…

— Kenneth Koch

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen