Death Quote by James Fenton

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular.…

— Anna Quindlen

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

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

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

— Alex Lemon

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

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

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright