Goal Quote by Mike Young

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

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

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

— Jack London

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood