Poetry Quote by Sylvia Plath

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

— J. David Gray

“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

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12”

— Aristophanes

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

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

— David S. Cross

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth