Poetry is Quotes · Page 2

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

— Natalie Goldberg

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the…

— Ezra Pound

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in…

— Walt Whitman

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes…

— Billy Collins

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your…

— Margaret Atwood

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful…

— Robert Hass

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours…

— Keith Miller

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most…

— Phil Ochs

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney