Cushions Quote by Philip Larkin

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

— Felix Dennis

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

— Charles Simic

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czesław Miłosz

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

— Horace Walpole

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan