Poetry Quotes · Page 117

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

— Jim Elliot

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Catch the blast of a hype verse, my glock burst, leavin a hearse I did worse.

— Wu Tang

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

— Terrence Howard

“Be mindful of angels guiding and guarding your path. Walk with them.”

— Melody Lee

“Poetry is a sound, asking the shadow to dance”

— Jana Ghossein

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

— William Wordsworth

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“And fourthly, what need hardly be said twice, That good but rarely came from good advice.”

— George Gordon Byron

“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur…

— Steven Sebring

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

— Diane Ackerman

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry…

— Laura Dern

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,…

— Helen Keller

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,…

— Jack Prelutsky

We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat.…

— Virginia Woolf

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself…

— Natasha Trethewey

“One of his favourite couplets, by the poet Muzaffar Razmi, which he quoted on more than one occasion, in Parliament and to…

— Sanjaya Baru

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it…

— Alan Moore

“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,…

— Margaret Atwood

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can…

— Adrienne Rich

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

— John Singer Sargent

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

— Joyce Kilmer

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

— Wale

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

“He was the one that healed her, that made her scars feel beautiful.”

— Atticus Poetry

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

— James Broughton

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

— Paul Valery

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

“Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea”

— Sarah Hymas

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk

“See--two who dreamed that dream, and you were one.”

— Caris Brooke

“Brace d'inverno, I capelli tuoi, Dove il mio cuore brucia.”

— Stephen King