- Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
- Richard Eyre on Poetry
- Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
- Wilfred Owen on Poetry
- No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
- Thomas Harrison on Poetry
- No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
- John Barton on Poetry
- No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
- Knut Hamsun on Poetry
- Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
- Isaac Rosenberg on Poetry
- Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Poetry
- None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
- Edith Hamilton on Poetry
- Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
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