Charm Quote by Horace

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will…

— A. E. Housman

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

— Marianne Moore