Vanna Bonta on Poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
Walt Whitman on Poetry
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
W. H. Auden on Poetry
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Samuel McChord Crothers on Poetry
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.
Robert Graves on Poetry
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Paul Valery on Poetry
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous on Poetry
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Oscar Wilde on Poetry
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on Poetry
The freedom of poetic license.
John Keats on Poetry
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.