Poetry Quotes · Page 162

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

“the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”

— Ian McEwan

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

— Robert Hass

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

— Anonymous

“I am the author of my Life and Lovestory, I wrote it in poetry”

— Patrick Cruz

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

— Milan Kundera

“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered…

— Eric Overby

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband…

— William Manchester

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,…

— Martin Prechtel

“Under a night’s sky Filled with a hundred billion stars Is it so crazy to believe Our paths were destined to cross?”

— Justin Wetch

“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do…

— David McDonald

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically…

— Anonymous

The poetry of India can be truly known only through scanning the poetry of all languages.

— Gulzar

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit…

— Sarah Kay

“Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of "fittingness": that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve…

— Zadie Smith

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been…

— Anne Carson

“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring…

— Mary Oliver

“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of…

— The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and…

— James Arthur

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without…

— Dorianne Laux

“We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is going down You're moody, and…

— Anna Akhmatova

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

— May Sarton

“A well-made poem is a little haunted house, a tangible dwelling place for the spirit”

— Daniel Veach

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

“He hope she'd find somebody who would text her love poetry in the middle of the night”

— Erin Lawless

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.”

— Sanober Khan

“Has father from Heaven Sent the Angel to me?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“O rose, you look sick. O rose, wake up and sing.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

— Jane Austen

“Love is dead And we are each to blame When we took lighters over wild flame.”

— Justin Wetch

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

There's poetry in the real world; science is the poetry of reality.

— Anonymous

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

— Tracy Chapman

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

— Ambrose Bierce

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”

— Brenda Hillman