Poetry Quote Generator

“ Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. ”

~Anthony Hecht

“ There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ”

~Hamlin Garland

“ Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ”

~Robert Fitzgerald

“ Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ”

~Archibald MacLeish

“ 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

“ If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ”

~A. R. Ammons