That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Galway Kinnell
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William Rose Benet
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Joshua Logan
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.
W. S. Merwin
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Alfred Edward Housman
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
J. Milton Hayes
I’m looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
Angela Sarafyan
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.
Georges Seurat
I didn’t want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Tom Wesselmann
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
Elizabeth Jennings
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Alfred Douglas
I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
Toi Derricotte