Life Quote by Josh Lanyon

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

— John Keats

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.”

— James Tate

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole