Poetry Quotes · Page 95

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

Some poems are art because of their passion.

— Gerald Stern

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”

— robert m drake

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

— Rithy Panh

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

“Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.”

— Robert Walser

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of…

— Louis Untermeyer

“...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

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Anonymous

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because…

— Howard Nemerov

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

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an…

— Alok Mishra

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a…

— Anis Shivani

“Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason,…

— Ally Condie

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing nothing nothing. You scorched suntanned. Old too quickly. Acres of suburbs…

— Ania Walwicz

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of…

— Mike Young

Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That…

— Needa Muy

“Algo comienza a morir cuando lo creemos eterno.”

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Philip Gibbs

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

— Lemon Andersen

A girl broke my heart & it bring out the poet in me!!

— Glen Rambharack

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

— Paige

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous

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

— Juvenal

“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.”

— Atticus Poetry

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

— Justin Cartwright

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost