Agreeable Quote by Horace

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

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion