Affection Quote by W. H. Auden

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme 14 lines…

— Abhijit Naskar

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of…

— John F. Kennedy

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court…

— Patrick Kavanagh

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde