Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

Tracy K. Smith

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

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

James Fenton

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John Crowe Ransom

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Dave Grohl

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Robert Pinsky

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Misha Collins

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Michael Leunig

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