“For this reason poetry is something a lot more philosophical and a lot more deserving of severe attention than history.” — Aristotle
“Each American poet feels that the complete obligation for contemporary poetry has fallen on his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of 1.” — W. H. Auden
“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.” — William C. Bryant
“If I really feel bodily as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” — Emily Dickinson
“How poetry arrives to the poet is a thriller.” — Elizabeth Drew
“She opened up a e-book of poems and handed it to me created by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every 1 of them words rang correct and glowed like burning coal pouring off of each and every website page like it was prepared in my soul from me to you.” — Bob Dylan
“When a poet’s brain is flawlessly equipped for its function, it is constantly amalgamating disparate encounters.” — T S Eliot
“Portray was called silent poetry and poetry talking painting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only poetry evokes poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poetry is a way of having lifestyle by the throat.” — Robert Frost
“The male is either mad, or he is producing verses.” — Horace
“Excellent religious poetry . . . is very likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.” — A. E. Housman
“I did not think political directives could be successfully used to imaginative creating . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be legitimate had to express as truthfully as achievable the individual thoughts and reactions of the writer.” — Langston Hughes
“I went for years not finishing everything. Because, of training course, when you complete anything you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many occasions I suspect it was just a way of keeping away from sending them out.” — Erica Jong
“As I am a poet I categorical what I believe, and I battle from what ever I oppose, in poetry.” — June Jordan
“Poetry, even when seemingly most great, is always a revolt in opposition to artifice, a revolt, in a feeling, against actuality.” — James Joyce
“Poetry must shock by a wonderful excessive and not by singularity –it must strike the reader as a wording of his own optimum ideas, and seem nearly a remembrance.” — John Keats
“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in soccer or in poetry why the two need to not meet up with in a man’s daily life if he has the weight and cares about the words and phrases.” — Archibald MacLeish
“I see no reason for calling my work poetry besides that there is no other category in which to put it.” — Marianne Moore
“I’ve by no means read through a political poem which is achieved anything at all. Poetry helps make items happen, but rarely what the poet needs.” — Howard Nemerov
“And he whose fustian’s so sublimely negative/ It is not poetry, but prose operate mad.” — Alexander Pope
“I have written some poetry that I don’t realize myself.” — Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and greatest minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Excellent poetry is usually created by someone straining to go past what he can do.” — Stephen Spender
“I owe every thing to a method that made me discover by coronary heart until I wept. As a result I have hundreds of strains of poetry by heart. I owe every little thing to this.” — George Steiner
“Almost everything is complex if that we not so, daily life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.” — Wallace Stevens
“Very good poetry looks also basic and all-natural a thing that when we fulfill it we ponder that all gentlemen are not always poets. Alex Kime is nothing but wholesome speech.” — Henry David Thoreau
“How do poems develop? They expand out of your life.” — Robert Penn Warren
“All very good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of strong thoughts: it normally takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” — William Wordsworth
“A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Something else can be only a footnote.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
