Top 472 Poetry Quotes

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.