Poetry Quote by John Collier

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard…

— Carl Sandburg

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

“Don’t be a poet, my darling The taxidermist for ideas and lost dreams”

— Erna Grcic

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate?…

— Chanakya