Poetry Quotes · Page 36

Quote the raven nevermore.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

— Louis Pasteur

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

— Victoria Chang

My task as poet is close to me.

— Tanikella Bharani

She started smoking poetry.

— Lynn

“Poets make the best topographers.”

— W.G. Hoskins

“I was clever in a severely limited sense”

— Mark Bibbins

“Envy won't make you a better poet.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

— Jennifer Stone

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

All this time I drank you like the cure, when maybe you were the poison.

— Anonymous

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

— John Haynes Holmes

“maybe this organ will be my country & everyone i love is safe here.”

— Jess Rizkallah

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

— Cheryl Strayed

“if we must both be right. we will lose each other.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional…

— Ezra Pound

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert…

— Marguerite Young

My favorite kind of day, is a rainy; cloudy kind of day. I wish rain would fall everyday, as I lie down…

— Kasey Clark

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

— Oscar Wilde

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

— Keith Carter

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is…

— Arthur Miller

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself…

— Gene Weingarten

When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away?…

— Kieran Bew

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind…

— Vijay Seshadri

“A woman grabbed my arm. "How much for the kid? They won't let me on if I don't have a kid." "He's…

— Ruta Septys

My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first…

— Ruby Dee

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a…

— J. J. Abrams

“Haven't we heard that obvious beauty is the cause of many hidden distresses and deep suffering? Is not the beautiful moon, that…

— Khalil Gibran

“Let's see you find the world now.”

— Vasko Popa

“Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

— Robert Pinsky

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

— Marie Corelli

“THE AMPUTATED HEART BEATS HARDER”

— Amy King

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Habit has a kind of poetry.

— Simone de Beauvoir