Born Quote by Honore de Balzac

Only poetry inspires poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has…

— Henry David Thoreau

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

— Sandra Cisneros

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri