Always Quote by John Fuller

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

— Edwin Morgan

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

— Luci Shaw

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

— Eve Merriam

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

— Khalil Gibran

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.

— Clint Smith