Be grateful Quote by Hayden Carruth

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

— Karl Kraus

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it…

— W. H. Auden

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of…

— Allen Tate

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards