Class Quote by Matthew Arnold

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

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

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,…

— Guy Davenport

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that…

— Bryant McGill

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith