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A.E. Housman
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.
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Allen Tate
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
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Andr? Gide
Therefore is a word the poet must not know.
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Aristotle, On Poetics
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Author Unknown
If the author had said Let's us put on appropriate galoshes, there could, of course, have been no poem.
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Author Unknown
The only problemwith Haiku is that you justget started and then
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Author Unknown
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society
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Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Charles Simic
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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Christopher Fry
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
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Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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Dennis Gabor
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
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Don Marquis
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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