Poetry quotes

I like poems that are little games.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

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

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

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

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Every single soul is a poem.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.