--- title: "8 Poetry Exists Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Poetry Exists quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Poetry Exists sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/thomas-carlyle-207_heart_a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of_667454.png" --- > [A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of-all-men/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/thomas-carlyle-207_heart_a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of_667454.png) > [For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giorgos-seferis/for-poetry-there-exists-neither-large-countries-nor-small-its-domain/) [Giorgos Seferis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giorgos-seferis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/giorgos-seferis-42769_domain_for-poetry-there-exists-neither-large-co_992251.png) > [“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-nothing-but-lies-with-beautiful/) [Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/osho-519_passion_what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-not_1807870.jpg) > [For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-poetry-exists-to-break-through-to-below-the-level-of-reason-where/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15d/may-sarton-897_amenities_for-poetry-exists-to-break-through-to-be_1864714.jpg) > [Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/poetry-exists-partly-to-undermine-the-certainties-of-an-accepted/) [Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa4/germaine-greer-1521_accepted_poetry-exists-partly-to-undermine-the-ce_1891682.png) > [When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/when-you-think-intensely-and-beautifully-something-happens-that/) [Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/701/robert-bringhurst-16008_cases_when-you-think-intensely-and-beautifully_2476542.png) > [That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-hamill/that-s-one-of-those-questions-that-would-just-love-to-have-a-pat/) [Sam Hamill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-hamill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/sam-hamill-16399_answers_that-s-one-of-those-questions-that-would_2705736.jpg) > [“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suman-pokhrel/in-translation-of-poetry-there-exists-a-possibility-of-components/) [Suman Pokhrel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suman-pokhrel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/suman-pokhrel-8620_art_in-translation-of-poetry-there-exists-a_3106616.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry-exists/#itemlist", "name": "Poetry Exists Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Carlyle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of-all-men/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/thomas-carlyle-207_heart_a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of_667454.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/thomas-carlyle-207_heart_a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of_667454.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/thomas-carlyle-207_heart_a-vein-of-poetry-exists-in-the-hearts-of_667454.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.” — Thomas Carlyle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. 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Passion is insane, blind, unconscious—because it gives you the feeling as if it is love. Love”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Osho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-nothing-but-lies-with-beautiful/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/osho-519_passion_what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-not_1807870.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/osho-519_passion_what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-not_1807870.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/osho-519_passion_what-you-call-poetry-and-passion-are-not_1807870.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. 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That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. 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