Poetry Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance…

— Matthew Arnold

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

No bad man can be a good poet.

— Boris Pasternak

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which…

— Audre Lorde

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and…

— Orson F. Whitney