Poetry Quote by Simon And Garfunkel

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

— Mark Strand