Great poetry Quote by Helen Keller

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

“Poetry is the voice of the heart.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

— Jack Prelutsky

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

“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

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami