Poetry Quote by Philip James Bailey

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

— Patricia MacLachlan

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your…

— Walt Whitman

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

— Robert Frost

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

The world is yours, express yourself in poetry, life is beautiful, let it flow between your veins.

— Ash Sweeney

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

— Wallace Stevens

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

— Mary Oliver