Cents Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

— William Hazlitt

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

— A. R. Ammons

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

Let yourself become living poetry.

— Rumi

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney