Poetry Quotes · Page 116

“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.”

— Anonymous

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

— Wallace Stevens

“WRITING POETRY IS an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop”

— Anonymous

“You were, are cactus tourism. meeting you: granular fractals borrowed from oceans.”

— Virginia Petrucci

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

— Robert Frost

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

— Jessica White

“I'm afraid of waking up to a world where you see and I am not what you saw”

— Ali Nuri

“...the best poems were like little vessels that carry messages that can’t be transported in any other way; miniature worlds like tiny…

— Jonathan Hull

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

— Seamus Heaney

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all…

— George Sand

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

— Jean Giraudoux

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

— Raymond Chandler

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Longing is like the seed That wrestles in the ground, Believing if it intercede It shall at length be found. The hour…

— Emily Dickinson

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of…

— Samuel R. Delany

A friend is someone we turn to when our spirit needs a lift. A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship…

— Anonymous

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;…

— Marcus Aurelius

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for…

— Ariel Gordon

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began…

— Grace Paley

“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”

— Sanober Khan

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

— Nikky Finney

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'

— Fabolous

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

— Robert Penn Warren

“You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. ”

— Atticus Poetry

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

— Bugzy Malone

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

“If you have a fight work it out, don't get out”

— Angel Silva

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

— Jean Burden

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae

“She was the kind of girl that inspired love songs and erotic poetry.”

— A.J. Johnson-Clark

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

— Vladimir Nabokov

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

— Kurt Cobain

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

— Roy Fuller

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

— Thomas Cole

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko