Poetry Quotes · Page 32

Poetry is fired by love.

— Erica Jong

I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

— Gord Downie

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“I like the imp / in impossibility ”

— Pierre Joris

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar

Our best history is still poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All mothers breed dead children.”

— Mie Hansson

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

— John Crowe Ransom

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

— Steven Seagal

“And life goes on like this, an uncomplete poem.”

— Arzum Uzun

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

— Richard Eyre

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

— Mark Twain

New verses crush the hood like Im driving into something. Bitches on the kid like Im Iverson or something.

— Drake

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for…

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that…

— Judith Butler

The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep.

— Mariana Fulger

“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to…

— Jane Rule

Pitbull is, like, one of the most incredible humans. He's an amazing guy, and when we first connected on 'Fireball,' he said,…

— Ricky Reed

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll…

— Amanda Seyfried

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you.…

— Cotton Mather

“Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In later years this is the one memory he wishes would go away and not come back. And the reason he cannot…

— Anne Carson

“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while…

— Robert Frost

“The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that…

— Alicia Ostriker

Jo jan bunty wo jan lay b laty ha

— Anab Rafiq

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Old soul. Poet's heart. Warriors mind.”

— Melody Lee

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

I like to write poetry.

— Rebecca Ferguson

“Time is just a crazy game.”

— Amanda Leigh

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

— John Keats

I do not know how to make poems

— Henri Michaux