Change Quote by Martin Langford

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

— John Drinkwater

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough