Felt Quote by Kristin Hunter

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range”

— Mpho Leteng

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

— Eminem

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

— Anonymous

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says…

— Frank Skinner

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

— Dylan Thomas

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller