Good Poetry Quotes

Good Poetry Quote of the day

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

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

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

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.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

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.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.