Good Poetry quotes: Best famous quotes about Poetry
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. – Richard Rosen
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux
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. – Salman Rushdie
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg
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. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg
I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. – Charles Simic
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace Stevens
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick… You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. – Dylan Thomas
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren
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. – Robert Penn Warren
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E. B. White
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde
A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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