Ifs Quote by T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it…

— Denise Levertov

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

— Vanna Bonta

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to shake the…

— Thabang Tshabalala

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit…

— Rae Armantrout

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

— Wallace Stevens

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves