Poetry Quotes - page 2

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (Aristotle)
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. View quote
José Martí
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. View quote
John Updike
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. View quote
Georges Braque
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. View quote
Wallace Stevens
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. (Wallace Stevens)
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. View quote
Robert Frost
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. View quote
W. H. Auden
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Poetry is the deification of reality. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry. View quote
William Butler Yeats