Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

Mark Haddon

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

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

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

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

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