Book Quote by Robert Frost

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

— John Masefield

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music.…

— Joan Larkin

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver