Poetry Quote by William Carlos Williams

“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy,…

— Walt Whitman

“La poesía no quiere adeptos, quiere amantes.”

— Federico García Lorca

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely…

— Karen Tei Yamashita

“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.”

— Cynthia Pearl Maus

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball

“I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through…

— Margaret Atwood

“—A tu manera, quieres a tu padre y, confiésalo, te gusta la Rapsodia Húngara. —¿Eres pianista o psicólogo?”

— Erika Fiorucci

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“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