Devotion Quote by Marguerite Young

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

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…

— Eugenio Montale

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or…

— Cynthia Rylant

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti