Poetry Quotes · Page 37

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

Honor is the greatest poet.

— Dante Alighieri

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

— Stephen King

Poetry is life distilled.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac

“We may kill each other someday.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“We manufacture wonder where we can.”

— Brecken Hancock

She all up on ya boy cause she hear me on this verse

— Audio Push

“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”

— Wallace Stegner

“To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more;”

— Diana Gabaldon

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

— Merritt Wever

“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

— Robert Browning

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

“- Why are your poems so different from one another? - Because the years are different.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail…

— Franny Billingsley

“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that…

— Pattiann Rogers

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

— Jay Michaelson

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right…

— Jonathan Miles

“You may be able to fly to heaven with my love. But for real, my love is only a cheap wine. Seriously,…

— Subhan Zein

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to…

— John Ashbery

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only…

— John Collier

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…

— Mark Twain

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and…

— Steven R. McQueen

Every thought was once a poem.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

“I am part of all that I have met.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

— Walt Whitman

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

“And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.”

— Christopher Marlowe

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

— Dejan Stojanovic