Poetry Quotes

God, eldest of Poets.

— William Watson

A star needs a star.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

Poets tell many lies.

— Solon

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“Poetry is a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Give a poet a pen”

— A. Jarrell Hayes

“My verse, my blood.”

— Lepota L. Cosmo

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

— Peter Davison

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

“Forgive often and completely.”

— Justin Wetch

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

“Without wisdom, she will fall”

— Maddy Kobar

“all of that forest in your eyes.”

— Gwen Calvo

“What does this verse call children?   Did”

— Heidi Kreider

“Stars are shining, my dreams too”

— Anonymous

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

— Max Eastman

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

— Van Wyck Brooks

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not”

— Rupi Kaur

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

— Carl Sandburg

Truck drivers stop me and say, 'What is the poem for the day?' or 'Give me a poem for my girl.' I…

— Nipsey Russell

In particular, a really big inspiration for me, creatively, is Lana Del Rey and her music. I find her to have that…

— Esther Povitsky

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has…

— John Masefield

“If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose…

— Kahlil Gibran

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,…

— Laurence Boldt

“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.”

— Sanober Khan

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,…

— Suzy Kassem

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it…

— David Craven

“It was the means of making it clear that no matter how painful, Muhammad needed to be true to himself, to his…

— Lesley Hazleton

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,…

— Alejo Carpentier

“I like how you call homosexuality an abomination." "I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does." "Yes it does.…

— Aaron Sorkin

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in…

— Andrew Motion

“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and…

— Stanisław Lem