Victor Hugo Quotes

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

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

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

It's not easy to define poetry.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.