Poetry Quotes · Page 101

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

“O Love! Whore of a devil When would you find me?”

— Pierce Smith

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

— Joseph Brodsky

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

— Anonymous

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

“She appears quiet and subdued. The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.”

— Melody Lee

“She loved to read her old poems. They are like photographs, she thought. There’s so much evidence of me.”

— Leopoldine Core

“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.”

— Kathy Acker

“LEASE Life Ends And Session Expires Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales”

— Kamil Ali

“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next…

— Donald Hall

While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“She fondled, cradled, pacified and hushed the wounded heart to slumber by constantly saying, It’s over. He’s not coming back.”

— Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with…

— Anne Carson

By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“...after I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with…

— James W. Pennebaker

“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in…

— Kahlil Gibran

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely…

— Phil Kay

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a…

— John Dryden

Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

— Frank Turner

“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone”

— Kenneth White

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

“Transiting through time Like an apology In search Of its mistake.”

— Jenim Dibie

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

— Honore de Balzac

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

“an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.”

— Nick Laird

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

— Erica Jong

“He sighed. “But I’ve never been crazy about those ‘wait on God’ verses.”

— Kim Cash Tate

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

— Mark Strand

“The whispers inside the red wheelbarrow's dew.”

— Cameron Conaway

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

— Joni Mitchell

“She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.”

— Kate Chopin