Appearance Quote by Plato

“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the…

— Plato

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

— Edmund Waller

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis