Individual Quote by Philip Larkin

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

— Eminem

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

— John Masefield

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal