Poetry Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear…

— George Bernard Shaw

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams

“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe