| Author |
Quotes |
| Plato | Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. |
| Randall Jarell | A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. |
| Rene Char | A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. |
| Richard Rosen | The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. |
| Robert Frost | Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. |
| Robert Frost | Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. |
| Robert Frost | Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. |
| Robert Gilfillan | Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. |
| Robert Graves | There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. |
| Robert Penn Warren | The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". |
| Salman Rushdie | A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. |
| Samuel Mcchord Crothers | A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. |
| Stephen Mallarme | It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. |
| Sylvia Plath | For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. |
| Thomas Hardy | If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. |
| Wallace Stevens | In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. |
| Wallace Stevens | The poet is the priest of the invisible. |
| Wallace Stevens | A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. |
| Walt Whitman | To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. |
| Walter Mosley | Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. |
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