Poetry Quotes · Page 6

Habit has a kind of poetry.

— Simone de Beauvoir

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

Honor is the greatest poet.

— Dante Alighieri

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is life distilled.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

— Stephen King

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!”

— Benjamin R. Smith

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

— Leonard Cohen

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

“So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.”

— John Green

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue. ”

— Atticus Poetry

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

— Voltaire

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“We must lice with our hearts in our hands - like Mary. We must hold the blood- red heart and no be…

— Kelli Russell Agodon

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of…

— Andrew Motion

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

— Alfred Austin

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of…

— Rupert Brooke

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology…

— Darren Aronofsky

“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and…

— Philip Sidney

Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked…

— David Sedaris

Hallo _ hi-moving air in the wretched / hand forgot to introduce you to the heart !! say what is yours: So…

— Mak_786

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and…

— James Shapiro

“ Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done…

— Anne Sexton

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and…

— May Swenson

“Dolor I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight, All the misery…

— Theodore Roethke

“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man…

— G.K. Chesterton

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

— Quintilian

Everything is poetry to me.

— Jeremy Limn

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

Procreation annihilates eternity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

— Seamus Heaney

“It's like you're averse to adventure.”

— Gayle Forman