Funny Quote by Mark Strand

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making…

— Franny Billingsley

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.”

— Ewuare Osayande

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked…

— May Sarton

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.”

— Thomas Pynchon