Books Quote by John Keats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

— John Keats

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Dylan Thomas

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

— Kapil Sibal

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Robert M. Hensel

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the…

— John Ciardi

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer