When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Umberto Eco
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Elizabeth Edwards
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic... →
Kim Edwards
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But... →
T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely... →
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.