Poetry Quotes · Page 112

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

— Roger McGough

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

— Tommy Chong

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

— Israel Zangwill

“The dark, cold grasp you took on me, has tangled me completely”

— Victoria Manning

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

— J. Boone

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

— Seamus Heaney

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I…

— Peter Davison

“The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”

— Nicola Yoon

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should…

— Claudio Magris

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that…

— Babette Deutsch

“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms…

— Rodger Kamenetz

“A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers You’ve got nothing, I’ve got nothing, And it’s not a good thing.”

— Arzum Uzun

“Harnessing winter's energy, I drift, my free, wild woman's soul, alight with day's deep desires.”

— Susan L. Marshall

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make…

— Caterina Fake

“Whatever jasmines whispered to the breeze, brought sweets to the night, For there it dove, deep into the heart, The rush of…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We…

— T.S. Eliot

“In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air,…

— David Bowles

“I fell in love with the young assistant professor who took me through my first poetry course. Really in love--that is, enough…

— Agnes De Mille

“If you ever think of me, I hope it is not with regret but with gratitude. We were not a mistake. We…

— Marjory Qwen

“[John Clare's] father was a casual farm labourer, his family never more than a few days' wages from the poorhouse. Clare himself,…

— George Monbiot

“Belief In Self If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might…

— Kamil Ali

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

— Augustus William Hare

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

— Mark Strand

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

— Vikram Seth

“La chance contre le destin, on n’y peut rien.”

— Keva Epale

“She's the type of girl Billy Joel would write songs about.”

— Bailey Nadeen

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

— Matthea Harvey

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

— John Cage

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won’t do.”

— Jaroslav Seifert

“my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me. "Recreation”

— Audre Lorde

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

— Virginia Woolf