Poetry Quotes · Page 159

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

— robert m drake

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

— Aberjhani

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

— Jose Bergamin

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key

“He was a maniac utterly devoted to loving me, and I loved him in return, unapologetically.”

— Melody Lee

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return…

— Dorothea Lasky

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a…

— Donald Hall

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to…

— Dirk Nowitzki

“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

— Helen Vendler

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was…

— Jhene Aiko

“The trick is to ride the wave, Fast, wide-open and in deep Now-magic. Free, burning fear for fuel Generous, knowing there is…

— Jacob Nordby

“He wrote you a poem?" Evelyn looped her hand around Georgiana's arm and led the way to the chairs lining one side…

— Suzanne Enoch

Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.…

— Victoria Glendinning

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

— Oscar Wilde

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of…

— Aristotle

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times…

— Walt Whitman

“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from…

— Hassan Blasim

“Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a…

— John Steinbeck

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

— Philip Levine

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop”

— Vanessa Vanney Thompson

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

— Anonymous

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

— Paul Cezanne

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

— William Carlos Williams

The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.'

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

— Michael Ondaatje