Books Quote by John Keats

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,…

— John Keats

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

Poetry is the key to the mind.

— Gaetane Gayot

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth