Poetry Quote by George Gordon Byron

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it!…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen