Poetry Quotes · Page 4

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Theory of poetry

— Name Wordsworth

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

— William Wordsworth

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

“Please lift your snowy skies off my soul - Your diamond dreams slice through my veins”

— Else Lasker-Schüler

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

— Geoffrey Hill

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

— Amy Lowell

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

— John Shirley

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

— Robert Frost

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne

“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”

— Sherry Thomas

“You are poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.”

— Truth Devour

“Xifeng tilted her face, a pale moon in the evening of the water. She felt like a goddess in the shimmering light.…

— Julie C. Dao

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that…

— Derek Walcott

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

— Terry Eagleton

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries…

— Eugenio Montale

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

— John Updike

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles'…

— Philip Larkin

You want to be dressed in poetry But imagery doesnt fit And you want resizing But darling dear, get a grip

— Cute Is What We Aim For

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

— Kenneth Rexroth

“ Happiness So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that…

— Raymond Carver

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise…

— Derek Walcott

“dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the…

— Alexandre Dumas

I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got…

— Randall Jarrell

“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,…

— Cathleen Margaret

I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their…

— Cate Marvin

“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the…

— Robert W. Service

“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet…

— Jennifer Ashton

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie. ”

— Atticus Poetry

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

— Dylan Thomas

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

In poetry, only emotion endures.

— X. J. Kennedy