Poetry Quote by Jessica Park

“Poetry is the Quantum Mechanics of language.”

— Deborah L. Fruchey

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“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

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud.…

— Emily Horner

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up to a…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson