Can do Quote by Mary Szybist

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written,…

— Theodore Roethke

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

— Mark Nepo

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

— Anonymous

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler