Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Mahmoud Darwish

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Eavan Boland

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Bo Burnham

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Georges Seurat

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Robert Penn Warren

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Gary Oldman

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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