Modern poetry Quote by W. H. Auden

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

— Edwin Morgan

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

A social consciousness should be reflected in your poetry.

— Gulzar

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

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

— Adewale Joel

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver