Enemy Quote by Stanley Kunitz

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is…

— Cornelius Eady

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my…

— Rita Dove

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith