Poetry Quotes · Page 21

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

— Thomas Campbell

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

I want to make a poem of my life.

— Yukio Mishima

Any time is the time to make a poem.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Who knew? A fragile thing Could fall in love So easily But be left With nothing”

— Jennifer West

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

— Peter Davison

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

— Theophile Gautier

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

— Robert Browning

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

— Wislawa Szymborska

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

— Julie Harris

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]…

— Ariel Gore

“I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.”

— Nescio

“She wants you to see things she's never shown you. She wants you to hear things she's never said. She wants you…

— Alfa H

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good…

— William Morris

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write…

— Mark Haddon

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

— Philip Levine

“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth…

— Charles Bukowski

“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when…

— Denise Duhamel

“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through…

— Mindy McGinnis

“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the…

— Napoleon Hill

“The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. Too many years have passed, - I’m…

— Anna Akhmatova

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often…

— Mitch Kellaway

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

— William Wordsworth

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

I write poems to figure things out

— Sarah Kay

“all singing "caution" in chorus”

— Martha Wells