Best man Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

— Evelyn Waugh

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

— Paul Muldoon

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

— Joy Harjo

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

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous