Poetry Quotes · Page 68

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

— Stevie Smith

“Kun aika käy pitkäksi se on jo lyhentynyt.”

— Hannu Kankaanpää

“Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

— E. O. Wilson

“Oh, well,” Sands said, thinking that when passion stirred Major Eddie’s heart, he tended to speak in a kind of poetry—you wouldn’t…

— Denis Johnson

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were…

— James Broughton

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

— Pablo Neruda

“One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by…

— Frances Ponge

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards…

— Edward Hirsch

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

— Mark Gonzales

“It was no mere accident you were sent to me, perfect synchronicity. Familiar souls wrapped in skin, brought together through time again.”

— Melody Lee

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

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

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like…

— Ray Bradbury

“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps…

— Frank Kermode

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many…

— Adrienne Rich

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

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

— Maria Edgeworth

“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom”

— Maddy Kobar

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist... for NOTHING”

— Casey Renee Kiser

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler

“THE RIGHT POEM FINDS US EXACTLY WHEN IT NEEDS TO. —ATTICUS”

— Atticus Poetry

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

“I am a poet writing frenetic free verse I am pretentious”

— Michael H. Hanson

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

— Dejan Stojanovic

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

There's no one right way to teach poetry in schools.

— Michael Rosen

“The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

— James Stephens

“Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.”

— Adrian C. Louis