Life Poetry Quotes

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

— Mary Butts

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it”

— William Hazlitt

“Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments.”

— Robert Ahanes

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

— Wallace Stevens

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

— Jean Marais

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.

— Le Corbusier

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

— Le Corbusier

“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.”

— Stephen King

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life…

— Sylvia Plath

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves…

— William Osler

“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on…

— Elliot Perlman

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life…

— Adrienne Rich

“What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams,…

— Knut Hamsun

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which…

— John Ashbery

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art…

— Charles Darwin

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without…

— Dorianne Laux

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is…

— Anne Stevenson

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.…

— Walt Whitman

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill…

— Peter S. Beagle

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way…

— Andrea Gibson

“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections…

— Jay-Z

“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human…

— Tom Schulman

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.…

— N.H. Kleinbaum

“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]…

— Ariel Gore

“Life is so mysterious and illustrious that no one can touch or feel it. Without life or consciousness, a body becomes a…

— Debasish Mridha

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.…

— Victor Methos