Poetry Quotes · Page 147

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

— Oscar Wilde

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

— John Adams

“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”

— Atticus Poetry

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

— Van Wyck Brooks

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

— Max Eastman

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

— Mary C. Neal

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

— Joan Larkin

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses who are waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and…

— Sera Beak

“When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the…

— Dorothy Parker

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

— Peter O'Toole

All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One…

— Gary Snyder

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since…

— David Toop

The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal…

— RaMell Ross

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of…

— Hermann Hesse

“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent…

— Allen Shawn

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied…

— John Dryden

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were…

— Sarah Kay

Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit…

— Clement Greenberg

I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

— Shirley Hazzard

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not”

— Rupi Kaur

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I love the stars they always find a way to pull me away.”

— Melody Lee

“I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.”

— Adam Zagajewski

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

— Diane Glancy

“The poetry of love is the greatest gift God gave us.”

— Sorin Cerin

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

— Anne Sexton

“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar