Poetry Quote by Mark Doty

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

— David Whyte

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important…”

— Angela Suba Natarajan

“Poetry is not about how we feel, of course. It’s about how we feel about how we feel. Knowing how we feel about how…

— Adrian Blevins

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

— Julian Jaynes