Top 472 Poetry Quotes

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

John Holmes

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

Daphne Gottlieb

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

Orson F. Whitney

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Lisel Mueller

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Marguerite Young

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

Brian Harris

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