Good poetry Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets,…

— Victoria Chang

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak…

— Richard P. Feynman

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.”

— Robert James Waller