Poetry Quotes
+15Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
- Anonymous
+2Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
- Sigmund Freud
+2Poetry,an association of words placed into structure,weaving majesty and brilliance to create text,immortalizing the paper upon which it is written.
+1Poetry is not always words.
- Audrey Foris
+1The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.
- Jean Cocteau
+1Poetry is life distilled.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
+1Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
+1A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valéry
+1Who can tell the dancer from the dance?
- William Butler Yeats
+1You can’t write poetry on the computer.
- Quentin Tarantino
+1A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Therefore is a word the poet must not know.
- André Gide
+1Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
- Marianne Moore
+1Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg
+1All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis
+1Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
+1A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost
+1Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
+1To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
- Robert Frost
+1A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
- William Blake
+1Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt
+1Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Carl Sandburg
+1The longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
- Stanley Kunitz
+1A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- Rene Char
+1Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.
- William Blissett
+1To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
+1Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
- Thomas Gray
+1The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen
+1A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- Wallace Stevens
+1Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T.S. Eliot
+1Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
- William Wordsworth
+1Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Rita Dove
+1Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
- Joseph Roux
+1There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know.
- William Cowper
+1There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
+1What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
- W.H. Auden
+1Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud
