Poetry Quotes


231 quotes:

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Irish Dramatist Quotes
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
Author: Auden Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Feelings Quotes
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes English Novelist Quotes
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Author: Shelley Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes English Poet Quotes
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"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."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Author: Poe Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Author: Shelley Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Poet Quotes
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
Author: Whitman Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat"
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Irish Poet Quotes
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