Poetry Quote by John Crowley

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what…

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

— Marianne Moore

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose…

— Seamus Heaney

“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In your soul, I see a moonrise in the dark nights of my life.…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“I started seeing poetry from a strictly consumerist perspective as poets serving up beverages. Most, maybe like 97 percent or something, serve lemonade. You…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In hour soul, I see a moon in the dark nights of my life.…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking…

— Laura Nyro

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

— Compay Segundo

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen