Best Poetry Quotes
3367 Poetry quotes by 1570 unique authors
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one…
— Charles Baudelaire
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
— John Berger
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that…
— Annie Besant
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
— William Blake
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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great…
— Andrea Bocelli
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as…
— Niels Bohr
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Poetry is life distilled.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
— James Broughton
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God is the perfect poet.
— Robert Browning
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
— James Buchan
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
— Lord Byron
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
— James Branch Cabell
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
— John Cage
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
— Jane Campion
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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
— Jane Campion
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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
— David Carradine
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief…
— John Cheever
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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