Poetry Quote by J. David Gray Download Open image ““A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”” — J. David Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.” — John Smyth Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot do the… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
