Noir Quote by Raymond Chandler

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“Everything has its poetry. 94”

— Joseph Joubert

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man