Children Quote by Wallace Stevens

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it…

— Balroop Singh

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

— Robert Hass

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

— William Alfred Quayle

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer