Poetry Quotes · Page 185

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

— Sophie Arnould

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

— Gulzar

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

— Michael Ondaatje

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

— Maria Teresa Horta

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

— Marianne Moore

“Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.”

— Cory Basil

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.”

— Frithjof Schuon

There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets'…

— Elizabeth Flock

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi…

— Pablo Neruda

“It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.”

— Robert Galbraith

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

“This life is going to have a lot of unknowns, but please know that my love for you will never be one…

— Liz Newman

“Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

— A. R. Ammons

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a…

— John Muir

“Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more…

— Joseph Campbell

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some…

— Billy Collins

“But the chapel, that will never be prosaic. Those who have seen it outlined against the sunset or the full moon, those…

— Whipplesnaith

“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with…

— David Lodge

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of…

— Czesław Miłosz

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

— Justin Cartwright

“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.”

— Atticus Poetry

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, this one doesn't.

— Paige

A girl broke my heart & it bring out the poet in me!!

— Glen Rambharack

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

— Lemon Andersen

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

— Philip Gibbs

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

— Rodney Crowell