Accord Quote by Jean Cocteau

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

— Rumi

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

— Kiki Dimoula

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

— Yang Wanli

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

— Yang Wanli

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

“I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of…

— Paul Valéry

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg