Famous Quotes
- Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Poetry
- Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
- Walter Mosley on Poetry
- Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
- Diane Glancy on Poetry
- Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
- Richard Hell on Poetry
- Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
- Asghar Farhadi on Poetry
- Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- James Joyce on Poetry
- Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
- Franz Grillparzer on Poetry
- Poetry: the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry
- Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
- Eli Khamarov on Poetry
- Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry
- Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
- William Collins on Poetry
- Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
- Patrick White on Poetry
- Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
- Walter Savage Landor on Poetry
- Prose talks and poetry sings.
- Franz Grillparzer on Poetry
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis on Poetry
- Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
- Frank Iero on Poetry
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein on Poetry
- Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
- Bette Midler on Poetry
- Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
- David Lee Roth on Poetry
- Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
- Ajay Naidu on Poetry
- Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
- Macklemore on Poetry
- Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
- J. Courtney Sullivan on Poetry
- Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
- Georges Braque on Poetry
- Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
- James Martineau on Poetry
- Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
- Victor Hugo on Poetry
- Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
- George William Curtis on Poetry
- Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
- Franz Grillparzer on Poetry
- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Poetry
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Poetry
- Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
- Joseph Roux on Poetry
- Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
- Allen Tate on Poetry
- She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
- James Dickey on Poetry
- Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
- 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 on Poetry
- Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
- Nicholson Baker on Poetry
- So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
- Thomas Lynch on Poetry
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