Quotes On Poetry

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. by John Denham

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. by David Carradine

David Carradine

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Poetry: the best words in the best order. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every single soul is a poem. by Michael Franti

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. by Rita Dove

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. by Octavio Paz

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. by John Ciardi

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. by Howard Nemerov

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. by Thomas Gray

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. by M. H. Abrams

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? by John C. Ransom