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title: "29 Poetry Written Quotes by 27 authors"
description: "Browse 29 Poetry Written quotes by 27 authors. Discover the best Poetry Written sayings and thoughts."
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> [More modern poetry is written than read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/more-modern-poetry-is-written-than-read/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [Poetry must be as well written as prose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/poetry-must-be-as-well-written-as-prose/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [“You are all the poetry I have written all the words I know I've heard”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyler-kent-white/you-are-all-the-poetry-i-have-written-all-the-words-i-know-i-ve-heard/)

[Tyler Kent White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyler-kent-white/)

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> [He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-drove-his-mind-into-the-abyss-where-poetry-is-written/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-geok-lin-lim/poetry-has-roots-but-they-are-sometimes-cut-off-and-still-poetry-is/)

[Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-geok-lin-lim/)

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> [Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-koch/poetry-which-is-written-while-no-one-is-looking-is-meant-to-be-looked/)

[Kenneth Koch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-koch/)

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> [“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/great-poetry-whether-written-in-greek-or-in-english-needs-no-other/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/great-poetry-is-always-written-by-somebody-straining-to-go-beyond/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

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> [Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/of-all-the-poetry-written-in-our-generation-frost-s-is-most-likely-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/perfect-purity-is-possible-if-you-turn-your-life-into-a-line-of/)

[Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/)

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> [Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/poetry-is-written-with-tears-fiction-with-blood-and-history-with/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

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> [Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-rosen/poetry-has-never-been-written-with-the-intention-of-making-young/)

[Michael Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-rosen/)

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> [There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenio-montale/there-is-also-poetry-written-to-be-shouted-in-a-square-in-front-of-an/)

[Eugenio Montale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenio-montale/)

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> [For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/for-poetry-was-all-written-before-time-was-and-whenever-we-are-so/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-e-cidal/there-is-a-whole-book-of-poetry-written-by-a-woman-with-sucidial/)

Sue E Cidal

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> [No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/no-good-poetry-is-ever-written-in-a-manner-twenty-years-old-for-to/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/the-trouble-with-poetry-is-it-s-often-written-to-the-sound-of-a-drum/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-morgan/among-the-american-contemporaries-i-read-with-most-enjoyment-are/)

[Robert Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-morgan/)

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> [Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vera-pavlova/poetry-should-be-written-the-way-adultery-is-committed-on-the-run-on/)

[Vera Pavlova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vera-pavlova/)

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> [I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/i-don-t-think-any-poetry-is-written-that-isn-t-primarily-written-to/)

[Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/)

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> [“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/nearly-all-our-older-poetry-was-written-and-read-by-men-to-whom-the/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-monterroso/what-an-incredible-amount-of-poetry-of-novels-of-sociological/)

Augusto Monterroso

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> [ I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea \[Exodus 15\], to the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-read-the-text-and-then-i-come-to-the-shirat-ha-yam-to-the-song-of/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/what-i-search-for-continuously-in-my-art-is-adequate-language/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/much-verse-fails-of-being-poetry-because-it-was-not-written-exactly/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-l-scott/she-was-sunshine-on-a-rainy-day-a-rainbow-against-gray-clouds-hope-in/)

[S.L. Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-l-scott/)

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> [I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-glazer/i-published-privately-a-collection-of-my-serious-poetry-i-had-written/)

[Tom Glazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-glazer/)

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> [And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-strand/and-yet-in-a-culture-like-ours-which-is-given-to-material-comforts/)

[Mark Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-strand/)

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> [Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/good-poetry-could-not-have-been-otherwise-written-than-it-is-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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                        "text": "I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.",
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                        "text": "Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.",
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