Top Poetry Quotes

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

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.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

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...

Et ce monde étrange continue de tourner.

Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like...Klapaucius thought, and thou...

A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour,ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,laid out by the mast, amidships,the great ring-giver. Far fetched treasur...

A man said to the universe: Sir, I exist!However, replied the universe, The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

But, in the end, a kiss is just a kiss; I have no time for love, or seasoned lips.

To do something very common, in my own way.