Memorable Famous Poet Quotes

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"The only thing worse than a poet is a poetry critic."
Michael Hofmann
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
Carl Sandburg
"In every work of genius, we distinguish the bold and the timid, the ghost and the flesh, the eternal and the transient."
William Blake
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
Robert Frost
"The true poem is the poem of the soul."
Joseph Conrad
"Poetry cannot be separated from the poet; it is the poet themselves."
Marianne Moore
"Poetic talent is a particular way of seeing things, a need to translate the confusion of experience into a clear picture."
W. H. Auden
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"A poet is a person who can look into his heart and find inspiration amid the sorrow."
Khalil Gibran
"The best poet is the one who knows how to write and read the hearts of people."
Chico Xavier
"Poetry is an act of peace."
Pablo Neruda
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Jean Cocteau
"For me, poetry is a way of making sense of my experience in the world."
Mary Oliver
"The function of poetry is to teach us how to live, and to see our lives clearly."
David Whyte
"A good poet is a good person."
William Wordsworth
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
Thomas Gray
"The essence of poetry is its ability to convey meaning on multiple levels."
Robert Graves
"What shall I write? The poem of the mind in the act of finding what will suffice."
Wallace Stevens
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valéry
"I am two with nature."
Karl Shapiro
"Poetry is the essential language of thought."
Susan Sontag
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"The best poetry is the most unrhymed."
W. H. Auden
"For me, the genesis of poetry is in action, in the will to create something new."
Octavio Paz
"In poetry, you must love the subject you express."
Sara Teasdale
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
William Wordsworth
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
Ayn Rand
"The poet doesn’t invent. He listens."
Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful form of literature, the most artful method of communication."
John Ashbery
"A good poet is a rare bird."
James Russell Lowell
"The language of poetry is the language of the heart."
Lucille Clifton
"In poetry, you must love the suggestions, the inferences, the evocation—everything that provokes a reaction but is not explicit."
Robert Pinsky
"Poetry allows one to resume dancing with language."
Richard Wilbur
"Poets are the legislators of the universe."
Plato
"A poetry of the earth is never dead."
John Keats
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G. K. Chesterton
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"The poet's job is to make the world strange again."
David Foster Wallace
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Robert Frost
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
John Keats
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
William Wordsworth
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful."
Rita Dove
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
Gilda Radner
"All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual things."
Robert Browning
"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?"
W.H. Davies
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
William Wordsworth
"Poetry can unleash a mind that has been trapped."
Maya Angelou
"One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple."
Jack Kerouac
"In the end, the poem is a thing of beauty made of words that take place at the edge of the imagination."
Robert Bly
"A good poem is a contribution to reality."
Wallace Stevens
"The true poem is a poise between nature and humanity."
John Clare
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Khalil Gibran
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of transmitting thought to the world."
James Russell Lowell
"Words are the voice of the heart."
Confucius
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
Mark Twain
"What I like about a good poem is that it does not explain things; it simply gives you a glimpse of reality."
W.S. Merwin
"The poems I create bring to life what the people feel but cannot say."
Maya Angelou
"I am a poet, and I take the poetic view of the world as a place of beauty and grace."
Robert Frost
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
William Wordsworth
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is the most beautiful of all lies."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
William Shakespeare
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they can only be felt with the heart."
Khalil Gibran
"A good poet is like a good looker; if you see their life you shall see their art."
John Keats
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world."
Pablo Neruda
"The best way to keep your word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Poetry is the echo of the melody of the universe."
Gustav Mahler
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling
"All poetry is a form of creative discovery."
Marianne Moore
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost
"The poet's task is to see the world through their eyes and translate it into words."
Langston Hughes
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
Robert Frost
"The poet is an inventor of language."
William Carlos Williams
"The secret of being a writer is that you need to have the ability to make everything you want to express dance with rhythm."
Charles Bukowski
"In poetry, you must tell the truth, and if you do, you'll astonish yourself."
John Keats
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Pablo Neruda
"Every poem is a story of its own; every poet is a storyteller."
Sylvia Plath
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
Oscar Wilde
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
"Words are the raw materials of poetry, and poets are the craftsmen who shape them into art."
Margaret Atwood
"The poet is the one who talks about the most important things, like love, life, and death."
Pablo Neruda
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
Robert Frost
"All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech."
Robert Frost
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination."
John Keats
"The best thing about a God who loves us is that he can love us still when we don’t love him."
C. S. Lewis
"Poetry can take you places that prose cannot."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Poems are a search for a way to say something you can’t say in ordinary language."
Margaret Atwood
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Edgar Allan Poe
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it."
E. E. Cummings
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
Louisa May Alcott
"I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."
Christopher Fry
"The poet’s role is to create a sense of wonder and a sense of mystery."
Paul Muldoon
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Abraham Lincoln
"Writing poetry is a way to escape this world and find a piece of your own."
Maya Angelou
"A good poet doesn’t draw attention to his art; he draws attention to the world."
Lao Tzu
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the tangles of their beliefs."
John Ashbery
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
Plato
"For a while, my heart was content to love you in silence."
Pablo Neruda
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