POETRY QUOTES

• I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Love has been the non stop spoken poetry of all time, but yet it's easily lost as love too is an infinity war.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• If you are going to write poetry, make sure it comes up from your soul and not from your head.
  ~ Kenneth R. Jenkins ~
• Poetry never about what you see, But the feeling that wets you like the sea.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• Poetry is one of the genres of literature that is skilfully written in lines and stanzas, usually spiced with figurative languages to give it an aesthetic beauty. It expresses thoughts and feelings recollected in tranquility.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
  ~ Bamanga Bashir ~
• Life is a uncomplete story.#https://Raosaqibpoetry.websites.co.in
  ~ Rao Saqib Pareemi ~
• Wine is bottled poetry.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
  ~ Robert Graves ~
• There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
  ~ John Masefield ~
• Poetry the best words in the best order.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost as a remembrance.
  ~ John Keats ~
• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
  ~ William Wordsworth ~
• Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• 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 we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
  ~ Boris Pasternak ~
• 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.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
  ~ Jean Cocteau ~
• Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Poetry is a spiritual software written to heal our hearts and souls.
  ~ Irfanulla Shariff ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
  ~ Fred Durst ~
• I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
  ~ Patti Smith ~
• I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
  ~ Patti Smith ~
• When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
  ~ Patti Smith ~
• Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
  ~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
• There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
  ~ George Will ~
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
  ~ Naguib Mahfouz ~
• Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
  ~ Thomas Mann ~
• Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
  ~ Thomas Mann ~
• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• 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.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~