Poetry Quote by Theresa Romain

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

— James Joyce

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

— Cassandra Clare

“God has his poets; they let him dream.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“He sighed. “But I’ve never been crazy about those ‘wait on God’ verses.”

— Kim Cash Tate

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I’ve had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one’s very door or perhaps in one’s very bed. I’m still…

— Gérard de Nerval

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

— J.M. Coetzee