93 Quotes About Poetry-is

...to share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible...

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.