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45 quotes about poetry:
Poetry represents words never spoke.
~Bonnidette Lantz
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~Edmund Burke
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
~Robert Frost
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
~Robert Frost
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
~PlatoPoetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of the words.
~Paul EngleYou will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring it with you.
~Joseph JoubertPainting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
~Simonides
A good poem is a contradiction to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyones knowledge of himself and the world around him.
~Dylan Thomas
In poetry you must love the words, the ideas and the images and the rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
~Wallace Stevens
Poetry is not a profession, it’s a destiny.
~Mikhail Dudan
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
~Stephane Mallarme
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry paints the picture of the words I cannot vocalize in any other form.
~Bonnidette Lantz
I do not feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. i owe them to my relations with other people.
~Robert Graves
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.
~Robert Graves
Poetry is the shortest way of say something. It lets us express a dimes worth of ideas, or a quarter’s worth of emotions, with a nickel’s worth of words.
~John P. Grier
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice.
~Earle Birney
Poetry represents words never spoke.
~Bonnidette Lantz
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
~Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reaching out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found it’s thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost
Poetry is an art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
~John Masefield
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
~Robert Frost
Poetry is opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
~Carl Sanburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
~Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
~Maxwell Bodenheim
Poetry allows me to express emotions that lie dormant in the darkness of my soul until at last pen meets paper.
~Bonnidette Lantz
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
~Sylvia Plath
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~Edmund Burke
Ignorance is one of the sources of poetry.
~Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a language that tells us something which cannot be said.
~Unknown Author
If left to it’s own tendencies, I believe poetry would exclude everything but love and the moon.
~Robert Frost
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
~La Rochefoucauld
When I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off – that is poetry.
~Emily Dickinson
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning to the mind.
~Marianne Moore
All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it.
~Hazlitt
Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.
~Robert Frost
What stimulates me to write a poem is that I have got something inside me that I want to get rid of – it is almost a kind of defecation.
~T. S. Eliot
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
~John Keats
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading into horizons too swift for explanations.
~Carl Sandburg
When a man ceases to write poetry he has probably married the girl.
~Unknown AuthorPoetry is a gift; maybe that’s why you can’t sell it.
~Unknown AuthorPoetry: A comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
~H.L. Mencken
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