Figurative Quote by Laurence Overmire

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards

The real thing creates its own poetry.

— Anzia Yezierska

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

— Dorothea Lasky

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

— Mark Twain

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal…

— Robert Greene

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis