Able Quote by Peter Davison

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Camille Paglia

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

— Horace

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor