- Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
- Dennis Potter on Poetry
- Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
- George Oppen on Poetry
- Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
- Ezra Pound on Poetry
- Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
- James Laughlin on Poetry
- Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
- Archibald MacLeish on Poetry
- Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
- Anna Jameson on Poetry
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
- Robert Staughton Lynd on Poetry
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