Poetry Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“What you’re feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry.”

— Colleen Hoover

“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

“- Why are your poems so different from one another? - Because the years are different.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.”

— John Green

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita