Poetry Quotes · Page 75

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

— Lemon Andersen

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

— Philip Gibbs

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

— Rodney Crowell

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

— Edward Hirsch

“Algo comienza a morir cuando lo creemos eterno.”

— Anonymous

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly…

— Aberjhani

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

— Felix Dennis

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again…

— Laura Nyro

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he…

— H. L. Mencken

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its…

— Rachel Lewis

“We do not live in a world of things but among benedictions given and--do you know what I'm saying?--received.”

— Irving Feldman

“Don’t forget that the pain is temporary. So feel it. Let it have its moment, and then dismiss it. Because you’re not…

— Liz Newman

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,…

— Sturgill Simpson

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not…

— John Lennon

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the…

— C.S. Lewis

“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I…

— Jostein Gaarder

“People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in…

— John Stuart Mill

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases…

— Margaret Atwood

“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells…

— Catherine Bateson

“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why…

— Jill Talbot

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, this one doesn't.

— Paige

“dark say: berthenia belle never forget the tongue hid name”

— Cathleen Margaret

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

— Joshua Logan

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.”

— Melody Lee

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

— Delmore Schwartz

“It is at the edge of the petal that love waits”

— William Carlos Williams

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

— Steve Grand

“Poetry is the Quantum Mechanics of language.”

— Deborah L. Fruchey

“[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“When my world was nothing but darkness I set my soul on fire.”

— Liz Newman

“Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy.”

— Renée Carlino