Famous Quotes
- Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
- Lucille Clifton on Poetry
- Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
- George Farquhar on Poetry
- Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry
- Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
- John Masefield on Poetry
- Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
- Richard Eberhart on Poetry
- Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
- June Jordan on Poetry
- Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
- Paul Celan on Poetry
- Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
- Huston Smith on Poetry
- Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
- Vicente Aleixandre on Poetry
- Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry
- Poetry is a totally different art than film.
- Stan Brakhage on Poetry
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- Robert Frost on Poetry
- Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
- Robert Frost on Poetry
- Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
- Adrienne Rich on Poetry
- Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset on Poetry
- Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
- Marianne Moore on Poetry
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt on Poetry
- Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman on Poetry
- Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
- J. G. Stedman on Poetry
- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- Charles Simic on Poetry
- Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
- Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
- Robert Fitzgerald on Poetry
- Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
- John Barton on Poetry
- Poetry is composing for the breath.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy on Poetry
- Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
- Michael Tippett on Poetry
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
- Karl Shapiro on Poetry
- Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
- Story Musgrave on Poetry
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen on Poetry
- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Poetry is life distilled.
- Gwendolyn Brooks on Poetry
- Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko on Poetry
- Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
- W. S. Merwin on Poetry
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
- James Branch Cabell on Poetry
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- 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.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
- Allen Ginsberg on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
- Audre Lorde on Poetry
- Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
- John Denham on Poetry
- Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
- Gaston Bachelard on Poetry
- Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
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