Poetry Quote by Marne L. Kilates

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“...The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.”

— Philip Roth

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster