Art Quote by Leonard Cohen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

— Henrik Ibsen

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

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

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser