Best Quote by Miller Williams

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to…

— Miller Williams

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical…

— Dana Gioia

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

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

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

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

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann