Poetry Quotes · Page 58

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

— Anonymous

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.'

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

— Ada Lovelace

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

— Marvin Bell

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“You will lie to everyone you love. They will love you anyways.”

— Shinji Moon

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

— Gary D. Schmidt

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

— Kit Harington

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

“Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.”

— Li-Young Lee

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

— Helen Keller

“I am the author of my Life and Lovestory, I wrote it in poetry”

— Patrick Cruz

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

— David Lee Roth

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

— Langston Hughes

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

— John Dryden

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

“When the world is too much, create your own. I do it everyday.”

— Melody Lee

“Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.”

— Frances Mayes

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

— Robert Graves

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

— Roy Harper

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

— Samantha Morton

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

— Peter Porter

“Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.”

— Cat Hellisen

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

— Charles Olson

“I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.”

— Richard Lovelace

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

— Matthew Arnold

“Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real”

— Sara Teasdale

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

— Earle Birney

Love is when I make poems and heart broken when I stop doing it.

— Christi Love

“seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death”

— Brandon Scott Gorrell