Poetry
Poetry has different meanings to different people. Read the thoughts of others on what poetry and poems mean to them. Also, you will find many different poetry resources. Resources to other poem sites, writing info, and more. We hope these assist you in your search for poems and provide you with tools you need to write poetry.Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire<
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
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
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E.M. Forster
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
W.B. Yeats
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is not always words.
Audrey Foris
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Shelley
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Patrick Martin: The Web Page/The Poetry Resource - offered as a public service to poets and lovers of poetry. Find an extensive collection of poetry links that are continually updated. http://www.pmpoetry.com/
Thomas Fortenberry | Kneedeep in Infinity A Poet, Writer, and Educator who shares his thoughts http://thomasfortenberry.net/
Dee Sunshine - Artist, Writer & Musician http://rimbaud.org.uk
Poetry4kids.com - Funny Poems for Children - Visit Poetry4kids for tons of poetry fun, including games, contests, discussion forums, and, of course, lots of funny poems! http://www.poetry4kids.com
Arrowhead Press - Contemporary Poetry - publishes books and pamphlets of contemporary poetry, providing a platform for poets to cross the difficult gap between magazine publication and first pamphlet or full collection http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk
Literature | StartPage UK http://literature.page.co.uk
Nine Arches Press - Independent publishers of contemporary poetry and short stories http://www.ninearchespress.com/
Katabasis Books: English and Latin American Poetry and Prose - Down to Earth and utopian poetry and prose from home and abroad. http://www.katabasis.co.uk/
Love Poems Read upbeat and positive love poems at Love Life Poems http://www.lovelifepoems.com
Dream Time Poetry - A collection of healing poetry designed to mark the author's own insightful journey through the complexities of life. Poems of nature, sad poems, spiritual poems, poetry verse and friendship poetry. http://www.dreamtimepoetry.com
Poetry in the Arts - Publisher of the poetry journal, Ardent! - and fine books of poetry by invitation. http://www.poetryinarts.org
Poetry Super Highway - The home of the Poetry Super Highway, a major Internet resource and online magazine publishing new poets every week plus more http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html
Poems for Free - Christmas Poems, Funny Poems, Love Poems And More - Enjoy reading more than 2000 poems online for holidays and special occasions. Christmas poems, funny poems, love poems, easter poems, poems written on any occasion, free for your personal and non-commercial use http://www.poemsforfree.com
Creative Words Poetry by Ruth Nott - Creative words in poetry, short stories, personal essays and books by Ruth Y.Nott. http://www.creativewordspoetry.com