Top 472 Poetry Quotes

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Comte de Lautreamont

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Thom Gunn

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Octavio Paz

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Peter Steele

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Daisaku Ikeda

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Allen Ginsberg

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Susan Vreeland

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Daphne Gottlieb

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