Poetry Quotes · Page 133

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, this one doesn't.

— Paige

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

— George Santayana

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

— Michel Serres

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”

— Randolph Bourne

“We are silent haters communicating through memories and tears We are silent lovers communicating through poetry and lyrics”

— Shannon Lynette

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

“This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.”

— Atarah L. Poling

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm…

— Hart Crane

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could…

— Sylvia Plath

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional…

— Muriel Rukeyser

“The last time I had a dick in my mouth I was dying alfalfa withered in rows unable to separate desire from…

— Jennifer Givhan

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution,…

— Paul Gauguin

“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at…

— Alexander Pope

“Algo comienza a morir cuando lo creemos eterno.”

— Anonymous

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

— Edward Hirsch

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

— Rodney Crowell

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

— Philip Gibbs

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

— Lemon Andersen

A girl broke my heart & it bring out the poet in me!!

— Glen Rambharack

“Poetry is the Quantum Mechanics of language.”

— Deborah L. Fruchey

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

— Steve Grand

“It is at the edge of the petal that love waits”

— William Carlos Williams

“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.”

— Melody Lee

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

— Delmore Schwartz

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

— Joshua Logan