Top Poetry Quotes

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I'll stop loving you the day my shadow stops following me around. Because on that day, nothing will make sense.

Poetry Definition

(n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

(n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Our lives may not have fit together, but ohhh did our souls know how to dance...

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

It's not easy to define poetry.

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewl...

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things t...

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning its...

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Et ce monde étrange continue de tourner.

I saw thee once - only once - years ago:I must not say how many - but not many.It was a July midnight; and from outA full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,Sought a precipitate pathway up...

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that po...

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.