Poetry Quote by J.D. Salinger

“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.…

— J.D. Salinger

If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.…

— Anonymous

“I know this much, is all, “ Franny said. “ If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you’re supposed to leave…

— J.D. Salinger

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into…

— Aliette de Bodard

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“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

“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing... ...No matter the situation, “Yes,…

— Eric Overby