Money Quote by Tim Key

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

— Max Beerbohm

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

— Omari Hardwick

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

— Thom Gunn

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous