Quotes
Quotes about Poetry
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
