Poetry Quote by Jasper Fforde

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable…

— Hal Duncan

“He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice…

— David Mitchell

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorized new…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“They are good evidence to prove that poems which seem often to be constructed of arbitrary surreal symbols are really impassioned reorganizations of relevant…

— Sylvia Plath

Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine…

— Edith Sitwell

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”…

— Richard S. Hartmetz

“There was no text. “Real” poems do not “really” require words. I”

— Layli Long Soldier

“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from the ocean,…

— Nejoud Al-Yagout

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest…

— Al-Maʿarri