Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

— Eugenio Montale

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

— William Shakespeare

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

— Jonathan Culler

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

— John Masefield

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

— Robert Hass

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

— Laurence Overmire