Branches Quote by Joan Larkin

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

— John Donne

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

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is…

— Alice Oswald

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney