Poetry Quote by Natasha Trethewey

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

— Richard Grossman

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

— Peter Davis

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from…

— Anonymous

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a novelist.”

— Colum McCann

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves