Poetry Quotes · Page 50

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

— William Carlos Williams

“Sudahkah kau minum puisimu hari ini?”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

Wine is bottled poetry.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

— Philip James Bailey

“When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.”

— Jaroslav Seifert

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

— Terry Eagleton

“funny how our hearts were designed to love so fiercely. but break ever so gently.”

— Sanober Khan

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

“My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses”

— Kamila Shamsie

“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would…

— Victor Hugo

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a…

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognized me, as…

— Anonymous

“...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very…

— John Geddes

“The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash…

— Pat Conroy

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…

— Anonymous

“Now, how are we to get the victory over all our enemies? Turn to Galatians, second chapter, verse twenty: “I am crucified…

— D.L. Moody

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the…

— May Sarton

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,…

— Philip Larkin

Before our eyes met, my mind was an empty mirror. I fear that my dreams will shatter. Now I see you every…

— Anonymous

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and…

— Hippocrates

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

After a full belly all is poetry.

— Frank McCourt

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I love romantic poetry.

— Richard Dawkins

“It still is on the run, time that is.”

— Amanda Leigh