Top 472 Poetry Quotes

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Hart Crane

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.

Ismail Kadare

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

Billy Collins

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

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Jane Campion

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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