Art Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.”

— Mary Oliver

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“The art of the successful poem is that is says more than its words say.”

— the mag man

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.”

— David Mitchell

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

“A poem is language built to the struc- ture of a flower.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely…

— Karen Tei Yamashita

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf