Poetry Quote by David Mitchell

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Will asked the same questions as many times as he’d read the verse. What did Keats want to do, why would it take so…

— Will Willingham

“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).”

— Leila Samarrai

“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite read.”

— Kirk Diedrich

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“I am a single note, a tone that peals in the wind. I am in the magic of the moment and then he returns,…

— H Raven Rose

“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.”

— the mag man

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

— James Joyce