Form Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters…

— Vikram Seth

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the…

— Jane Hirshfield

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed