Photograph Quote by Keith Carter

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

— Tom Stoppard

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because…

— Jim Lynch

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes…

— Tom Waits

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

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

— Cassandra Clare

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different. I read…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that…

— Anonymous

Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he…

— Cassandra Clare

I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are…

— Sarah Kay