Poetry Quote by Lynn Coady

“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because…

— Lynn Coady

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.”

— Miroslav Holub

“Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.”

— James Joyce

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

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“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

“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

“I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.”

— X.J. Kennedy

“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco