Disgrace Quote by J.M. Coetzee

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.”

— Anonymous

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“The way you respond to me. You’re poetry in motion.”

— Kitty Thomas

“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck