Brave Quote by Robert Frost

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

— Edward Hirsch

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

— Charles Olson

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver