Poetry Quotes
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
Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
One merit of poetry few persons will
deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
Pain is filtered in a poem so that
it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Mark Strand
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by
reason.
Novalis
The poet is a liar who always speaks
the truth.
Jean Cocteau
The novel is born of
disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Jose Bergamin
There is poetry as soon as we
realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
There's no money in poetry, but then
there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
To have great poets, there must be
great audiences.
Walt Whitman
Poetry is a mirror which
makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A Defence of
Poetry, 1821
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. Yeats
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
You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~Jean Cocteau, Le Rappel á l'ordre, 1926
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry
that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde
You don't
have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for
anyone. ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920
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