Best 6 quotes in «good poetry quotes» category

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I believe that good poetry resonates with people on a metaphysical level; you can read a poem without quite being able to put into words why you enjoyed it. It could have been the shivers that ran down your spine or the elevating in your heartbeat. Or, it made you smile, or even cry; made you feel something.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower