Contemporary Quote by Tony Hoagland

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm…

— Alok Mishra

“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet turns away…

— Helen Humphreys

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

— Anonymous

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences…

— T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range”

— Mpho Leteng

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis