Poetry Quote by Thomas Harrison

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as…

— Kevin Young

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

— Mary Oliver

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.”

— Adrienne Rich

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…

— Mary Ruefle

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet might have…

— Jennifer Ashton