Top 472 Poetry Quotes

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Claire Tomalin

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Victor Hugo

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Mahmoud Darwish

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Muhammad Iqbal

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Margaret Atwood

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