Good man Quote by Lewis Carroll

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out…

— Amber Tamblyn

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to…

— Robert Newman

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words…

— Dylan Thomas