Books Quote by Terry Eagleton

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of…

— Allen Tate

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

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

— J. David Gray

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

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

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

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

— William Carlos Williams

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