Poetry Quotes · Page 15

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

“Every woman is a living poem... Most men are limericks!”

— José N. Harris

“The weight of wait.”

— Cameron Conaway

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

— Greg Bear

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into…

— Robert Bringhurst

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

“This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.”

— R. YS Perez

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

“There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she…

— Michael Connelly

“dark say: berthenia belle never forget the tongue hid name”

— Cathleen Margaret

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and…

— Jay Michaelson

“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would…

— Ally Condie

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

— Eli Khamarov

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite…

— Matthew Zapruder

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and…

— Joanne Harris

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which…

— Samuel Johnson

“Loneliness of heart In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far…

— M.I. Ghostwriter

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Sometimes Across the fields of yesterday She sometimes comes to me A little girl just back from play the girl I used…

— Blanche Caldwell Barrow

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of…

— Pat Conroy

“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another…

— Ousmane Sembène