Top 472 Poetry Quotes

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.