Poetry Quote by Philip Pullman

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

— Tom Stoppard

“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone…

— Charles Wright

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

— Cynthia Ozick

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

— Stevie Smith

“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't…

— Shiela Jane

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the…

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton