Poetry Quotes · Page 69

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

— Marianne Moore

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

— Clive Barker

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

— Frank Bidart

“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?”

— Aleksandar Ristovic

“You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.”

— William Packard

These poems need to be released from their cages,

— Coleman Barks

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”

— Friedrich Holderlin

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white…

— R. S. Thomas

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

— Anthony Mackie

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line…

— Robert Frank

“Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps She lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully. — “Nurture.”…

— Anonymous

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

— F. L. Lucas

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in…

— Robert Watson-Watt

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is…

— Anne Stevenson

Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and…

— Jay Michaelson

The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay…

— Maureen Johnson

“[Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [...] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they…

— Virginia Woolf

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something…

— Shane McCrae

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because…

— Amitabh Bachchan

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“In this room full of dancers, why do you still sit?”

— Hardesh

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

— Theodore Roethke

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you”

— Nayyirah Waheed

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

— Rene Char

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

— Russell Baker

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

— Jean Ingelow

“It’s the end of man and I can do whatever I want.”

— Brecken Hancock

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

— Elizabeth Bishop

“Xs and Os Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting, for the next x or o.”

— Lang Leav

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett