Top 472 Poetry Quotes

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

Paul Heyse

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Natasha Trethewey

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Howard Nemerov

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Jack Prelutsky

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