Joy Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder