Dive into the captivating world of poetic expression with our curated collection of poetry quotes.From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces,our compilation celebrates the power of language to evoke emotions and stir the soul.Whether you seek inspiration,solace,or simply appreciate the beauty of words,our handpicked selection of poetry quotes promises to ignite your imagination and leave a lasting impression.Join us on a journey through the depths of human experience,one verse at a time.
Poetry Quotes:
1. “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”—Robert Frost
3. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”—William Wordsworth
4. “Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh,cry,prickle,be silent,makes your toenails twinkle,makes you want to do this or that or nothing,makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world,that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.”—Dylan Thomas
5. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”—Edgar Allan Poe
6. “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”—Plato
7. “Poetry is an echo,asking a shadow to dance.”—Carl Sandburg
8. “Poetry is emotion,passion,love,grief—everything that is human.It is not for zombies by zombies.”—F.Sionil Jose
9. “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
10. “Poetry is like a bird,it ignores all frontiers.”—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Deep poetry quotes from women:
11. “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”—June Jordan
12. “Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that.Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”—Julian Barnes
13. “Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion,revolution,and the raising of consciousness.”—Alice Walker
14. “Poetry is one of the ancient arts,and it begins as did all the fine arts,within the original wilderness of the earth.”—Mary Oliver
15. “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”—Rita Dove
16. “Poetry,I feel,is a tyrannical discipline.You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”—Sylvia Plath
17. “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me,I know that is poetry.”—Emily Dickinson
18. “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,I know that is poetry.”—Emily Dickinson
19. “What the world wants,what the world is waiting for,is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry.And the dreadful disreputable doubt,which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.”—G.K.Chesterton
20. “A good poem is a contribution to reality.The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe,helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”—Dylan Thomas
Famous Poetry Quotes:
21. “I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom,in public places,on subways,trains,on cocktail napkins.I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.”—Billy Collins
22. “The world is full of poetry.The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies,and sparkle in its brightness.”—James Gates Percival
23. “You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory,in what people say on the bus,in the news,or just what’s in your heart.”—Carol Ann Duffy
24. “A poet is,before anything else,a person who is passionately in love with language.”—W.H.Auden
25. “Poets are the sense,philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”—Samuel Beckett
26. “A poet’s work… to name the unnameable,to point at frauds,to take sides,start arguments, shape the world,and stop it from going to sleep.”—Salman Rushdie
27. “Always be a poet,even in prose.”—Charles Baudelaire
28. “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”—Friedrich Nietzsche
29. “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second.I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.”—Bob Dylan
30. “Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.”—Andre Gide
Poetry Quotes About Life:
31. “The poet is the priest of the invisible.”—Wallace Stevens
32. “All poets,all writers are political.They either maintain the status quo,or they say, ’Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.’”—Sonia Sanchez
33. “You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet.Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.”—Erica Jong
34. “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”—T.S.Eliot
35. “If you are always trying to be normal,you will never know how amazing you can be.”—Maya Angelou
36. “Nothing will work unless you do.”—Maya Angelou
37. “Do the best you can until you know better.Then when you know better,do better.”—Maya Angelou
38. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”—Maya Angelou
39. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else,you will have succeeded.”—Maya Angelou
40. “You alone are enough,you have nothing to prove to anybody.”—Maya Angelou
Poetry Quotes About Love:
41. “A poem begins as a lump in the throat,a sense of wrong,a homesickness,a lovesickness.”—Robert Frost
42. “Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar’s atmosphere.”—Henry David Thoreau
43. “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”—Oscar Wilde.
44. “Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.”—A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
45. “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”—W.H.Auden
46. “Poetry and beauty are always making peace.When you read something beautiful,you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”—Mahmoud Darwish
47. “It was at that age,that poetry came in search of me.”—Pablo Neruda
48. “One should always be drunk.That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine,with poetry,or with virtue,as you chose.But get drunk.”—Charles Baudelaire
49. “There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”—Emily Dickinson
50. “Don’t write love poems when you’re in love.Write them when you’re not in love.”—Richard Hugo
Poetry Quotes Expressing What Poet Really Is:
51. “A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius.”—George Edward Woodberry
52. “Poetry is not an expression of the party line.It’s that time of night,lying in bed,thinking what you really think,making the private world public,that’s what the poet does.”—Allen Ginsberg
53. “Painting is silent poetry,and poetry is painting that speaks.”—Plutarch
54. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality,but an escape from personality.But,of course,only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”—T.S.Eliot
55. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives.It lays the foundations for a future of change,a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”—Audre Lorde
56. “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind.It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”—Allen Ginsberg
57. “Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings,and making music with them.”—Dennis Gabor
58. “Poetry is thoughts that breathe,and words that burn.”—Thomas Gray
59. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”—Robert Frost
60. “The crown of literature is poetry.”—W.Somerset Maugham
Inspiring Poetry Quotes:
61. “It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”‒ T.S.Eliot
62. “Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”‒Paul Engle
63. “The great instrument of moral good is the imagination,and poetry administers to the effect by acting on the cause.”‒Percy Bysshe Shelley
64. “My subject is War,and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity.”‒Wilfred Owen
65. “Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”‒Georges Braque
66. “I do not go in search of poetry.I wait for poetry to visit me.”‒Eugenio Montale
67. “To be a poet is a condition,not a profession.”—Robert Grave
68. “Poetry is emotion put into measure.The emotion must come by nature,but the measure can be acquired by art.”—Thomas Hardy
69. “A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty but does not remove it.A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”—E.B.White
70. “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
Thought Provoking Poetry Quotes:
71. “Poetry – but what is poetry.”―Wislawa Szymborska
72. “Oh,speak no ill of poetry,For ’tis a holy thing.”―Lydia Huntley Sigourney
73. “It takes a lot of desperation,dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems.”―Charles Buckowski
74. The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history,to create if it is writing poetry.”―Victor Hugo
75. “And it was at that age … Poetry arrived in search of me.”―Pablo Neruda
76. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry.”―Ernest Hemingway
77. Was not writing poetry a secret transaction,a voice answering a voice?”―Virginia Woolf.
78. “Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”―Ishmael Reed
79. “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”―Don Marquis
80. “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”―Robert Frost
Poetry Quotes To Sharpen Our Wits:
81. “Poetry can be dangerous,especially beautiful poetry,because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”―Rumi
82. “Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”―Stanley Kunitz
83. “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”―Percy Bysshe Shelley
84. “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”―Percy Bysshe Shelley
85. “It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”―Stephane Mallarme
86. “Poetry is an act of distillation.It takes contingency samples, is selective.It telescopes time.It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.”―Diane Ackerman
87. “All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.”―Edith Sitwell
88. “Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.”―Linton Kwesi Johnson
89. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal,and history only the particular.”―Aristotle
90. “Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.”―Philibert Joseph Roux
Deep Poetry Quotes:
91. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.-A. P.J.Abdul Kalam
92. You can find poetry in your everyday life,your memory,in what people say on the bus,in the news,or just what's in your heart.-Carol Ann Duffy
93. The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world.That's what poetry does.-Allen Ginsberg
94. Poetry is an echo,asking a shadow to dance.-Carl Sandburg
95. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.-Samuel Johnson
96. Poetry is this gorgeous,complex history rendered in verse and song,a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.-Robin Coste Lewis
97. I would define,in brief,the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.-Edgar Allan Poe
98. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.-Joseph Joubert
99. Poetry is emotion put into measure.The emotion must come by nature,but the measure can be acquired by art.-Thomas Hardy
100. Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.-Johann Georg Hamann
Famous Poetry Quotes From Men:
101. Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.-William Cullen Bryant
102. Poetry and beauty are always making peace.When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.-Mahmoud Darwish
103. The crown of literature is poetry.-W.Somerset Maugham
104. Everything one invents is true,you may be perfectly sure of that.Poetry is as precise as geometry.-Gustave Flaubert
105. Poetry is like a bird,it ignores all frontiers.-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
106. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door,leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.-Carl Sandburg
107. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.-Plato
108. Poetry must be made by all and not by one.-Comte de Lautreamont
109. Every single soul is a poem.-Michael Franti
110. Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings,and making music with them.-Dennis Gabor
Deep Poetry Quotes From Women:
111. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.-William Wordsworth
112. A poem begins as a lump in the throat,a sense of wrong,a homesickness, a lovesickness.-Robert Frost
113. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal,and history only the particular.-Aristotle
114. A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings,about human feelings and frailties.-Anne Stevenson
115. When power leads man toward arrogance,poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the area of man's concern,poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence.When power corrupts,poetry cleanses.-John F.Kennedy
116. Poetry is not a matter of feelings,it is a matter of language.It is language which creates feelings.-Umberto Eco
117. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder,with a dash of the dictionary.-Khalil Gibran
118. Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally,in the end,pleasure.-Mark Strand
119. Poetry is an orphan of silence.The words never quite equal the experience behind them.-Charles Simic
120. Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.-Georges Braque
Poetry Quotes About The World Around Us:
121. How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.-Robert Penn Warren
122. Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.-Robert Fitzgerald
123. Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind.It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.-Allen Ginsberg
124. In the total darkness,poetry is still there,and it is there for you.-Abbas Kiarostami
125. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.-Percy Bysshe Shelley
126. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.-T.S.Eliot
127. Love is the poetry of the senses.-Honore de Balzac
128. Poetry isn't a profession,it's a way of life.It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.-Mary Oliver
129. Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language,which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.-Adrienne Rich
130. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.-Novalis
Poetry Quotes About What It Means To Be A Poet:
131. Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind,lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.-Walter Scott
132. Poetry is one of the ancient arts,and it began as did all the fine arts,within the original wilderness of the earth.-Mary Oliver
133. Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose,and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.-Horace Walpole
134. Poetry is not an expression of the party line.It's that time of night,lying in bed,thinking what you really think,making the private world public,that's what the poet does.-Allen Ginsberg
135. Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.-William Hazlitt
136. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.-T.S.Eliot
137. Personality is everything in art and poetry.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
138. Poetry is emotion,passion,love,and grief,everything that is human.It is not for zombies by zombies.-F.Sionil Jose
139. The world is full of poetry.The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies,and sparkle in its brightness.-James Gates Percival
140. Poetry is simply the most beautiful,impressive,and widely effective mode of saying things.-Matthew Arnold
Poetry Quotes And Lines From Famous Poet Maya Angelou:
141. “Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.”–Christopher Fry
142. “Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”–Carl Sandburg
143. “Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”–Samuel Johnson
144. “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”–Plato
145. “When power leads man toward arrogance,poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence.When power corrupts,poetry cleanses.”–John F.Kennedy
146. “The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse… the one describes the thing that has been,and the other a kind of thing that might be.Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history,since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,whereas those of history are singulars.”–Aristotle
147. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal,and history only the particular.”–Aristotle
148. “Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.”–Augustus William Hare
149. “Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”–Georges Brague
150. “The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”–Muriel Rukeyser
Best Poetry Quotes:
151. “Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.”–James Branch Cabell
152. “I don’t create poetry,I create myself,for me my poems are a way to me.”–Edith Södergran
153. “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
154. “Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.”–Edmund Burke
155. “Poetry is life distilled.”–Gwendolyn Brooks
156. “Poetry is thoughts that breathe,and words that burn.”–Thomas Gray
157. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”–Robert Frost
158. “Poetry is not a civilizer,rather the reverse,for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.”–Robinson Jeffers
159. “A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”–Wallace Stevens
160. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”–Novalis
Poetry Quotes To Sharpen Our Wits:
161. “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,I know that is poetry.”–Emily Dickinson
162. “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder,with a dash of the dictionary.”–Khalil Gibran
163. “If my poetry aims to achieve anything,it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”–Jim Morrison
164. “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
165. “The poet is the priest of the invisible.”—Wallace Stevens
166. “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry,but a kind of instinct or inspiration,such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”–Socrates
167. “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”–Percy Shelley
168. “Poetry is an act of peace.”–Pablo Neruda
169. “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”–Lawrence Ferlinghetti
170. “There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines.”–Alexandre Vinet
Motivational Poetry Quotes:
171. “It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”–Stephen Mallarme
172. “The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.”–Jean Cocteau
173. “If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem,it’s going to be average.”–Derek Walcott
174. “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”–Robert Frost
175. “I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.”–Carl Sandburg
176. “A poet is a man who manages,in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,to be struck by lightning five or six times.”–Randall Jarrell
177. “The poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away.”–Alexandre Vinet
178. “Poetry is just the evidence of life.If your life is burning well,poetry is just the ash.”–Leonard Cohen
179. “The poem… is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful.And in the end,the poem is not a thing we see — it is,rather,a light by which we may see — and what we see is life.”–Robert Penn Warren
180. “To be a poet is a condition,not a profession.”–Robert Frost
Inspiring Poetry Quotes From The Best Lines:
181. “In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace….All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old,and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world.”–Alexandre Vinet
182. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”–John Keats
183. “Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”–James Tate
184. “I write poetry in order to live more fully.”–Judith Rodriguez
185. “If you’ve got a poem within you today,I can guarantee you a tomorrow.”–Terri Guillemets
186. “Always be a poet, even in prose.”–Charles Baudelaire
187. “If you can’t be a poet, be the poem.”–David Carradine
188. “Every single soul is a poem.”–Michael Franti
189. “Breathe-in experience,breathe-out poetry.”–Muriel Rukeyser
190. “I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don’t have to write anymore.”–Tukaram
More Poetry Quotes And Lines:
191. “God is the perfect poet.”–Robert Browning
192. “A poem is never finished,only abandoned.”–Paul Valéry
193. “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”—Robert Frost
194. “All poets,all writers are political.They either maintain the status quo,or they say, ’Something’s wrong,let’s change it for the better.’”—Sonia Sanchez
195. “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”—T.S.Eliot
196. “Anon,who wrote so many poems without signing them,was often a woman.”—Virginia Woolf
197. “One should always be drunk.That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine,with poetry,or with virtue,as you chose.But get drunk.”—Charles Baudelaire
198. “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”—Cassandra Clare,Clockwork Angel
199. “Poetry and beauty are always making peace.When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”—Mahmoud Darwish
200. “Poetry is not always words.”–Terri Guillemets
As we conclude our exploration of poetry quotes,we invite you to carry the magic of these words with you in your daily life.Let them serve as beacons of inspiration,guiding you through moments of joy,sorrow, and everything in between.Embrace the beauty of language and the power of expression as you continue on your journey.Remember,poetry quotes are not just words on a page;they are windows into the human experience,offering solace,insight,and a deeper understanding of the world around us.
By: QuotidianVersae Team.
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