Poetry Quotes · Page 111

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

— J. D. Salinger

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

— Alice Walker

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

— Ernest Hemingway

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

— Hafiz Of Persia

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

— Muriel Rukeyser

“So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.”

— John Green

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems…

— James Arthur

Rain rain go away , come again another day i sung this poem yesterday that's y rain come today

— Babloo

“He was always thoughtful and affectionate toward her, and so she was a sweetheart to him.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They…

— Jimmy Iovine

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

— John Burroughs

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.”

— Jay Long

Perfectly and imperfectly entwined. A Love beyond measure, a hell of circumstance; I smile, as I cry, loving you all the same.…

— Eric Nickel

“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even…

— Yu Hsuan-Chi

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…

— Octavio Paz

The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the…

— Marge Piercy

“Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning…

— Stephen Fry

“You’re human. You can’t be a “motivational speaker” every damn day of your life. It’s okay to have dark days. Allow yourself…

— Melody Lee

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a…

— Robert Bly

“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep…

— May Sarton

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

— Leonard Cohen

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue. ”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

“I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!”

— Benjamin R. Smith

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

— Victor Hugo

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

“Freeze is not a weakness. Fawn is not surrendering.”

— Rita Kay

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“My poetic aspiration Is to become, A Jack of all styles And a master of pun.”

— Clive Blake