Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

Billy Collins

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Jean Marais

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

John Ciardi

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

Paul Heyse

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

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Robert Adamson

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Tao Lin

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Jerry Hall

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