“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
Howard Nemerov
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Kahlil Gibran
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
Oscar Wilde
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty”
Edgar Allan Poe
