Poetry Quotes · Page 45

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”

— Russell Edson

I continue to explore poetry.

— Vivek Shraya

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

— Derek Walcott

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

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

— Peter Porter

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

— William Shenstone

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

— Imogen Cunningham

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian

“I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.”

— John Stuart Mill

There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle.

— Yz

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe”

— Tony Hoagland

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep…

— Jean Paul

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm…

— Franz Grillparzer

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

— Audre Lorde

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work.…

— Edward Hirsch

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,…

— David Biespiel

Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me —…

— Jessica Bates

“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with…

— Rachel Held Evans

“The fact of the matter is, if you read through the instructions to the New Testament churches you will find few explicit…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a…

— Bell Hooks

Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had…

— George Polya

“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water…

— Rumi

“I’ll rise up as a poem…”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“Furthermore, he had beautiful eyes.”

— Jeramy Dodds

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

— Lucretius

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Dylan Thomas

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie. ”

— Atticus Poetry