Famous Quotes About poetry

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

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

I like poems that are little games.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.