Heart Quote by Tony Harrison

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect…

— James Arthur

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall…

— Stephane Mallarme

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the…

— Arnold Bennett

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in…

— John Drinkwater

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti