Poetry Quotes · Page 63

He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself

— Proverb

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

— Kenneth Slessor

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

— Layzie Bone

“The fear of love can be replaced by the love of fear”

— Michael Biondi

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

— Rick Springfield

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

— Phyllis McGinley

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

— Flemming Rose

“The first time I saw your face, my lips said, "hello" and my heart said, "that's your wife.”

— J.A. ANUM

“we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor”

— Arianna Huffington

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

— Rita Dove

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.”

— Alfa H

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”

— John Keats

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

— Aristotle

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and…

— Edward Hirsch

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through…

— Isaac Asimov

I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up…

— Adam Hicks

“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford…

— Fran Lebowitz

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images…

— Keali'i Reichel

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or…

— Philip Schultz

“She was the storm, could be found by the sea, sometimes lost in the tides. He was the calm, gently embracing her…

— Melody Lee

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate…

— Yehudi Menuhin

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

— Plato

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

— William Wycherley

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle.

— Yz

“She's living That life, with the view, she designed.”

— Bri Miller

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

— Anonymous

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

— Colin Quinn

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

— Sandra Bullock

“out of darkness i come, a woman. and on i go and on.”

— Gertrud Kolmar

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.

— Mata Hari

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

— Brandy Norwood

“regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.”

— Charles Bukowski

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

— Kim Hyesoon

“No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.”

— Nayyirah Waheed