Poetry Quote by Merlie M. Alunan

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the…

— Plato

“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

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink…

— A.E. Housman Marcus Manilius

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

— Mason Cooley

“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from the ocean,…

— Nejoud Al-Yagout

“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I,…

— John Donne

“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold things beautiful…

— Robert Browning

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets…

— Criss Jami

“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

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson