Powerful Poetry Quotes

Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. — Nikki Giovanni

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn’t declaim or explain, it presents. – William Carlos Williams

My role in society, or any artist or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. – John Lennon

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing poetry is a state of free float. ― Margaret Atwood

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ― W.H. Auden

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ― Christopher Morley