Top 472 Poetry Quotes

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

Ellen Hopkins

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Eminem

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

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Cheryl Hines

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

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Robert Littell

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

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Rory Kinnear

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