Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.