Memorable Poetry Quotes

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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
Novalis
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical."
Jean Cocteau
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
Rita Dove
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is an act of peace."
Pablo Neruda
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"Poetry is the song of the soul, and the song of the world."
Max Ehrmann
"Poetry is an invisible embrace."
Octavio Paz
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
Charles Bukowski
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power."
Paul Engle
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
Augustus William Hare
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."
T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
Robert Frost
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
Voltaire
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Plutarch
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Salman Rushdie
"Poetry is the basis of civil society. If law, morality, and religion are the checks on the latent violence of individuals, then poetry is the check on the latent violence of language."
Adam Nicolson
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The poet is the priest of the invisible, the one who makes present what is not visibly there."
Wallace Stevens
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
Robert Frost
"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Robert Graves
"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
William Wordsworth
"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
Wallace Stevens
"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
Alice Walker
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
T. S. Eliot
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
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"Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings."
W. H. Auden
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."
Salman Rushdie
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
Louis Dudek
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
Joseph Roux
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
William Wordsworth
"A poet is a musician who can't sing."
Patrick Rothfuss
"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."
Christopher Fry
"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
Carl Sandburg
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
Wallace Stevens
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
Thomas Gray
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Samuel Johnson
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Plato
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"Poetry is the deification of reality."
Edith Sitwell
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Carl Sandburg
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valéry
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
Dennis Gabor
"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."
Dylan Thomas
"Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
Paul Engle
"Poetry is from the infinite reservoir of funniness."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poetry is what happens when emotions find their thought in words."
Robert Frost
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
Emily Dickinson
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful."
Rita Dove
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
Audre Lorde
"Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame."
Wallace Stevens
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
Edmund Burke
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
Walt Whitman
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a little salt."
Kahlil Gibran
"Poetry is the universal language of the heart."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Poetry is the shadow of dreams and the phantom of hope."
Voltaire
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is no good unless it's subversive."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the mirror of all art, the breviary of all good learning."
Barnabe Barnes
"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
John Keats
"Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action."
Audre Lorde
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