Seven Poetry Quotes

1.“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

-James Fenton

2.“Poetry fettered fetters the human race.”

-William Blake

3."Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by 

singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording 

of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a 

remembrance."

-John Keats

4.“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

-Salman Rushdie

5."All poetry is misrepresentation."

-Jeremy Bentham

6.“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

-Robert Frost 
7.“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
-Robert Frost