Great poetry Quote by Michael Cunningham

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Stephen Spender

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn…

— James Dickey

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats