Alive Quote by Joan Larkin

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If…

— Emily Dickinson

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

— Valerie Worth

“Some say; “Poetry is what gets lost in translation!” In this sense, my life is a bitter poem. But that is the force of…

— Fereidoon Yazdi

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

— Giannina Braschi

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

— David Otunga

Says people only see what I want them to see and only a few know the real me

— Anonymous

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

— Mary Oliver

“Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.”

— James Joyce

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The…

— Robert Frost

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only…

— Nikki Giovanni

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

— Kate Bush