Generosity Quote by Ken Tucker

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized…

— Kathleen Norris

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts of readers.…

— LaTesha Monique

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois…

— José Ortega y Gasset

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver