Poetry Quotes · Page 10

I do not know how to make poems

— Henri Michaux

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

— Christopher Marlowe

“crawled like a blind slug into the web”

— Charles Bukowski

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

— Seamus Heaney

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

— Erin Morgenstern

“Poet, writer and anti-royalist”

— Alan Hardy

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

— John Burnside

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

— Langston Hughes

“This heart; a stubborn one always feeling everything; all at once.”

— N.R.Hart

“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.”

— Sally Jo Martine

“Heartache makes for good poetry, heartburn not so much.”

— S. Tarr

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

— R. S. Thomas

“There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.”

— Mark Strand

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

— Jose Saramago

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

Like fire poetry is a shadow that makes the heart want more. When you see that all you're is words, the water…

— Jeremy Limn

That's one of my homies. Whenever he hits me up, he's like what do you want to do and I'm the same.…

— B-Real

I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def…

— J. J. Redick

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

— Conrad Aiken

“I’d Poe’s nude for the approval of a dead poet. No names come to mind, but I’m sure there must be one…

— Jarod Kintz

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's…

— Lisel Mueller

“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?”

— David S. Cross

“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Wanting All Husband, it's fine the way your mind performs Like a circus, sharp As a sword somebody has To swallow, rough…

— Alicia Ostriker

Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in…

— Craig Blomberg

I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a…

— Matthea Harvey

“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of…

— Andrea Ashworth

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…

— F. Sionil Jose

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…

— Mary Ruefle

“To be a true poet is to become God.”

— Dan Simmons

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

“If you believe it, you can achieve it!”

— Sherria L Grubbs

“Our songs live longer than our kingdoms.”

— Atticus Poetry

Absolute equals nothingness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From nothing comes everything.

— Dejan Stojanovic

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

— Wallace Stevens

“Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you”

— Benny Bellamacina