Custody Quote by William Butler Yeats

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

— Susan Howe

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

— Thom Gunn