Top 472 Poetry Quotes

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

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.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.