Poetry Quotes · Page 104

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

— Denis Diderot

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

— John Keats

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

— David Hare

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.”

— Robert Frost

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.”

— Samuel Butler

“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”

— Sylvia Plath

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your…

— Connie Chung

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within…

— Lorne Michaels

“They were high up. If he fell, he'd have time to hum three verses of "She Has No Ankles That I Can…

— Robert Jordan

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

— Paul Muldoon

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always…

— Barbara Tuchman

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

“Every breath we take from the air Takes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayer And every exhalation does loudly declare That in…

— Justin Wetch

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the…

— Scott Storch

“Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted…

— Diane Chamberlain

“To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come. Let it…

— Jane Kenyon

“Strand sees his main skill as just paying attention to the textures and rhythms of life, being receptive to the multifaceted, constantly…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't…

— Werner Herzog

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she…

— John Lennon

“The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

— James Stephens

“Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.”

— Adrian C. Louis

“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.”

— Susie Clevenger

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.”

— Sanober Khan

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

— Charles Dickens

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt.”

— Jill Telford

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

— Johnny Tillotson

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

— Russell Baker

“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero