Poetry Quotes · Page 79

Roses are red, I have a phone; nobody texts me, I am alone.

— Anonymous

“Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade.”

— Colleen Hoover

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

“I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself.”

— Steve Maraboli

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

— Mary Karr

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

— Julian Barnes

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and…

— Rita Dove

“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off…

— Omar Khayyam

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of…

— Rupert Brooke

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very…

— Dodie Smith

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words…

— James Schuyler

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

— Kenneth Koch

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

— Horace

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay…

— Tom Schulman

Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance…

— Upton Sinclair

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,…

— Allen Ginsberg

No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a…

— Anne Waldman

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing…

— Gregory Orr

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able…

— T.S. Eliot

“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly…

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

“There was no text. “Real” poems do not “really” require words. I”

— Layli Long Soldier

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

— Jacob Bronowski

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man

— Horace

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

— Robert Hass

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

“He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.”

— Veronica Rossi

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

“Teachers clarify, artists confuse; poets do a bit of both”

— Robert Lindsay

“Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.”

— Walter Terry

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

— Plato

“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.”

— Whitley Strieber

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch