Lips Quote by Saravana Kumar Murugan

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?”

— David S. Cross

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

— Euginia Herlihy

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

— Jeremy Young

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“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

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.”

— Jude Morgan

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.…

— Wendy Higgins