Helping Quote by Stephan Pastis

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

— Jean Anouilh

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible…

— Adelia Prado

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and…

— Charles Dickens

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

— Mark Strand

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's…

— Masiela Lusha

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

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

— William Shenstone

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have…

— Louise Bogan

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver