Human Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught…

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel…

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be…

— James Arthur

“Only poetry isn't shit.”

— Roberto Bolano

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

— John Fuller

Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the…

— Hetty King

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

— Vanna Bonta

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it…

— Mark Haddon