Poetry Quotes

» Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

» Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

» "Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

» Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

» Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

» I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

» Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

» Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

» Always be a poet, even in prose.

» Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

» Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

» Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

» Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

» Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

» Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

» A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

» He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

» The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

» Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

» No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

» The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

» Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

» A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

» The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

» There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

» You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

» Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

» You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

» Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

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

» Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

» The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

» Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

» Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

» A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

» All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

» Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

» A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

» Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

» Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

» Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

» Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

» A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

» The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

» Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

» God is the perfect poet.

» Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

» A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

» To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

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

» There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

» The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

» I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

» A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

» Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

» Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

» A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

» Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

» Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

» If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

» Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

» Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

» A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

» To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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

» Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

» A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

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