Bother Quote by Jean Cocteau

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

— Augustus William Hare

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of…

— Multatuli

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its…

— John Keats

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

— Wallace Stevens

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt