Poetry Quotes · Page 16

A backward poet writes inverse.

— Nikhil Saluja

He is the poet of solitude.

— Richard L Coe

“We lived a moment without wishes.”

— Pratik Mishra

The Masters is poetry to me.

— Jim Nantz

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

“In the fall, I believe again in poetry ”

— Aila Meriluoto

“Fucking was poetry unbound.”

— Emily Maguire

“Why love what you will lose? There is nothing else to love.”

— Louise Glück

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

— Victoria Chang

“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?”

— Shannon Lynette

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

— John Dryden

“Reality had so intruded in my life that flowery verse seemed fanciful, foolish, even.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinariness lives inside things that are loved.”

— Laura Chouette

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

— robert m drake

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

— Howard Barker

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my…

— Satish Kumar

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations…

— Anais Nin

“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where…

— Ntozake Shange

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

— John Walter Bratton

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it…

— Amy Lowell

“On a folded piece of paper, in turn, each one of them would write a predetermined part of a sentence, not knowing…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love…

— Ellen Bass

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? E'en in Australia art thou still more hot Rough winds do shake the darling…

— Manny Rayner

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous…

— Washington Irving

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of…

— Fernando Pessoa

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray…

— Anonymous

“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I am the dreamer and not the dream”

— J.S. Watts

“Be a witch they cannot burn.”

— Nichole McElhaney

Poetry makes nothing happen.

— Anonymous

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“To be a true poet is to become God.”

— Dan Simmons

“If you believe it, you can achieve it!”

— Sherria L Grubbs

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

“Our songs live longer than our kingdoms.”

— Atticus Poetry