About Quote by Harry Mathews

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love, that is,…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon