Book Quote by Joan Larkin

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It…

— William Carlos Williams

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost