Poetry Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”

— C. J. Redwine

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.”

— Leonard Koren

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer