Poetry Quotes · Page 20

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

— James Russell Lowell

“It is always a poet's winter.”

— Kate Braverman

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is dancing with words.”

— Ana Monnar

This is truth the poet sings . . .

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

It's beautiful, it's poetry in motion.

— Joe Teti

“Sunbathe from within.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

— Edward Hirsch

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“There's a difference between being kind and letting people walk all over you.”

— Bailey Nadeen

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

“some people are so deep you fall into them and you never stop falling.”

— Ava

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

— Horace

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

— Robert Bly

“Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some…

— Alfa H

“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and…

— Rodney Compton

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made…

— Louis Untermeyer

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

— Robert Penn Warren

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

— Harold S. Kushner

“you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter…

— Baharak Sedigh

“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If…

— Steven Pressfield

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't…

— Simon Schama

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I…

— Eugene Ionesco

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a…

— Maria Edgeworth

If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.…

— Anthony Burgess

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't…

— Andrea Gibson

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

My favorite Bible verse is Psalm 144:6.

— Brandin Cooks

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

— Jon Anderson

Language is fossil Poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

— Mason Cooley

Each man has his own batch of poems.

— Saul Bellow

“Concrete breathes sun's heat.”

— Cameron Conaway

“nyt jumalainen lyyrani soi”

— Sapfo