poetry Quotes

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

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.