Poetry Quotes · Page 62

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

— Helen Bevington

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

— Jean Burden

“What a strange world. We trade our days for things.”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

— Henry David Thoreau

“first you made sure I could not take my eyes off you then you danced me back home to myself”

— Halina Goldstein

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

— Robert Frost

“For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”

— Anonymous

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

— Eliza Griswold

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

— Guy Johnson

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

— Stan Brakhage

My heart is in chains,though still beating. My spirit is caged, though still flaming. My mind has been captured, though is still…

— Anonymous

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,…

— Jack Prelutsky

“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even…

— Yu Hsuan-Chi

“I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life? The world is not simple, Claire said. The world…

— Elizabeth Brundage

“I don’t understand how everything moves so quickly. They say time flies when you’re having fun, but I wasn’t always having fun.…

— Amanda Leigh

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time…

— David Whyte

There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached…

— Eavan Boland

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

— Thornton Wilder

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

— Robert Browning

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

— Langston Hughes

“the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation”

— Marcel Proust

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

— Derek Walcott

“Genuine soul connections are the real aphrodisiacs.”

— Melody Lee

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. --Plato

— Plato

“Freeze is not a weakness. Fawn is not surrendering.”

— Rita Kay

“To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

— William Wycherley

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

— Yosa Buson

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

— Stan Brakhage

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key