Infinite Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

— Robert Browning

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that…

— Bryant McGill