Poetry Quote by Kahlil Gibran

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything…

— Kamand Kojouri

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Accuracy is sacrificed in the name of better poetry.”

— N.K. Jemisin

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

“Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.”

— Stephan Attia

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene