Books Quote by Robert Frost

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

— Peter Davison

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers…

— Edith Sitwell

“a poet is after all, to see”

— Ann Wood

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after,…

— Kevin Young

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is the key to the mind.

— Gaetane Gayot

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver