- A Poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
- A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison
- A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
- A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
- Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
- Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic
- You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Stephane Mallarme
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
- Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft quotes
- “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
- “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes
- “Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic quotes
