Inspirational Quote by Jeremy Bentham

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

— Mark Strand

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.…

— Michael Rosen

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

All poetry is experimental poetry.

— Wallace Stevens