Quotes about poetry

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Viscous and Sons had announced publication of The Annotated Poems of Sean O'Shawn, the great Irish poet, considered by many to be the most incomprehensible and hence the finest poet of his time. Abounding in highly personal references, an understanding of O'Shawn's work requires an intimate knowledge of his life, which, according to scholars, not even he had.