Condition Quote by Laura Riding

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later.…

— Goldlink

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as…

— Epicurus

“Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to…

— Georges Bataille

Most of us likes a perfect ending... But some story has no end... Even some music is out of tune... And even some poems…

— Janet Reolope

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will…

— A. E. Housman

Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best poems dont rhyme, and many great stories dont…

— Ritu Ghatourey

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau