Author Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

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

— Euginia Herlihy

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better”

— Jay Asher

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more complicated We…

— Colleen Hoover

“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

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

— Raymond Chandler

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson