Life Quote by Mark Strand

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

— Anonymous

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

— Steve Grand

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton