Poetry Quote by Louis MacNeice

“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“A victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.”

— Bertrand Russell

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.”

— David McDonald

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.”

— Pierre Albert-Birot

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain