Bleeding Quote by Robert M. Hensel

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling…

— Muriel Rukeyser

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.”

— Anonymous

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

— Anne Stevenson