Poetry Quote by Felix Alexander

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.”

— Agatha Christie

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives…

— Agatha Christie

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“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

“...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.”

— Jane Austen

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver