Attention Quote by Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of…

— Helen Dunmore

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading…

— Muriel Rukeyser

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on…

— Matthew Zapruder

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning?

— Brahmanandam

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but…

— John Ashbery

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so…

— David Daiches