Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. – Robert Penn Warren

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov

Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis