Poetry Quotes - page 4

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. (Salvatore Quasimodo)
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time. View quote
John Updike
You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The crown of literature is poetry. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry. View quote
John Donne
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Wine is bottled poetry. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. (Stephen Sondheim)
Poetry is a sort of homecoming. View quote
Paul Celan
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry must be as well written as prose. View quote
Ezra Pound
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. View quote
John Ruskin
Sir, what is poetry Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is. View quote
Samuel Johnson
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? View quote
Robert E. Howard
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. View quote
Thom Gunn
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. (Thom Gunn)
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. View quote
Thom Gunn
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally. View quote
Ani DiFranco