Poetry Quotes · Page 60

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

— Ray Manzarek

Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.

— Henry David Thoreau

To make words run smooth like poetry, that is talent.

— Spencer Pratt

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

— Robert Lowell

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

“I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said.”

— Katherine Paterson

“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.”

— Petra Hermans

“I treat positivity like ammunition; I constantly try to kill a bad thought with a good one.”

— Bailey Nadeen

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“Her heart was wild, but I didn’t want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set me free.”

— Atticus Poetry

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

— Derek Walcott

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

— Philip Larkin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

— Benjamin Franklin

“That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)”

— Chimnese Davids

What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes…

— Joyce Kilmer

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of…

— Anne Waldman

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to…

— Richard Hugo

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a…

— Dorianne Laux

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the…

— Swanee Hunt

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and…

— Cliff Curtis

“You don't need to get the reference to get the joke; but the joke eventually got me to Swinburne, who would gradually…

— Anonymous

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down…

— William Butler Yeats

“You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. ”

— Atticus Poetry

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.”

— John Boyle O'Reilly

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

“i write because it is the only way i can reach you.”

— Sanober Khan

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

— Charles Dickens

“The burning off and the gathering together are one.”

— Billy Marshall-Stoneking

“Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache”

— Nicola An

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

— Johnny Flynn

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

— Georges Bataille

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

— Czeslaw Milosz