Adore Quote by W. H. Auden

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a…

— W. H. Auden

What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You know how…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

— J. D. Salinger

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

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

— Philip Larkin

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

— James Broughton

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken