Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

A really good poem is full of music.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.