Poetry Quotes · Page 59

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

— Plato

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.”

— Juefan Huihong

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

— Paul Eluard

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

— Wallace Stevens

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

— Helen Fisher

Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.

— Sandra Cisneros

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

— Subhan Zein

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

“Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but…

— Georgette Heyer

“Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi…

— Martin Amis

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

— Claudia Rankine

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.

— Steven Wilson

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

— Anzia Yezierska

“The most interesting inconsistency in thought is connected with the Bower of Bliss. This passage--the twelfth canto of the second Book--is probably…

— Janet Spens

“His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade…

— Saul Bellow

“valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best…

— Lyudmila Ulitskaya

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like…

— Quentin Tarantino

I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die,…

— Zohra Sehgal

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There…

— Helen Dunmore

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a…

— Kiki Dimoula

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”

— Wallace Stevens

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

— Lorine Niedecker

“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--”

— William Wordsworth

“What a strange world. We trade our days for things.”

— Atticus Poetry

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“i reach the perfect cube, and wait for somebody to pick the phone back at home.”

— Abhijit Sarmah

“I don't believe in God today. I don't even believe in people.”

— Sarah Crossan

“he dragged his words painfully from the poets”

— Earl Derr Biggers

“To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you”

— Nicola An

Either a man become successful in love or he becomes a poet

— Shubham Joshi

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

“Love me...with all the abandon of a sudden wild rain.”

— Sanober Khan

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

— Katharine Viner