Poetry Born Quotes

“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

— Jean Cocteau

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

— William Arthur Ward

“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

— Honore de Balzac

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the…

— Pablo Neruda

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this…

— Daisaku Ikeda

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead