Quotes on Best Poetry

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.