Poetry Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

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

— John Ciardi

“Every emotion, every feeling I have can be expressed with a word. But poetry isn’t just words muddled in a sentence. It gives us…

— Madeleine McEwen

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran