Top 472 Poetry Quotes

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Jim Harrison

When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!

Jane Yolen

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

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

Joseph Joubert

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

Joe Haldeman

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Richard Hell

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

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