– Quotes about Poetry –
Creativity exists in different forms. Poetry is one. We can never overemphasize the power and beauty of poetry. We have dedicated this article to show you quote about poetry. You’d have the best read ever.
Quotes about Poetry
Below are some of the greatest quotes about poetry:
1. Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. Alice Walker
2. Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire
4. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
5. In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. Jonas Mekas
6. The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas
7. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
8. There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
9. Money is a kind of poetry. Wallace Stevens
10. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
Romantic Poetry Quotes
Here are some best poetry quotes and romance:
11. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
12. I love romantic poetry. Richard Dawkins
13. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare
16. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare
18. And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. E E. Cummings
19. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. William Shakespeare
20. We’re all just animals. That’s all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That’s where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. Elvis Costello
21. Modern” poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived? Randall Jarrell
22. Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you’ll find it’s very different! Alan Moore
23. Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor. Timothy Leary
24. I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured. Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
25. 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
26. When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal
27. Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott
28. Why should poetry have to make sense? Charlie Chaplin
29. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold
30. Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can’t do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. deGrasse Tyson.
31. When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. Joy Harjo
32. Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac
Inspiring Quotes about Poetry
Here are some quotes about poetry that would inspire you like never before:
33. Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. John Barton
34. A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances. Douglas Dunn
35. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine
36. Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
37. I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Howard Nemerov
38. You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life – that’s my trouble. Charles Olson
39. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
40. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein
41. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
42. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
43. You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. John Ciardi
44. Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire
45. One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon
46. Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell
47. A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Ivan Turgenev
48. No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? John Barton
49. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
50. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
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Quotes about Love for Poetry
Below are some of love quotes by famous poets, of all times:
51. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
53. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost
54. Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg
55. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
56. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot
57. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde
58. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch
59. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
60. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. Orson Welles
61. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
62. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
Quotes about Competition
Below are some of the greatest quotes about poetry and competition, of all times:
63. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi.
64. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. Walt Disney
65. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell
66. If you’re a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better. Andrew Whitworth
67. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. George S. Patton.
68. The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Karl Marx
69. If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Patrick Lencioni
70. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton.
71. Competition is the best form of motivation. Chordae.
72. Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. Nancy Pearcey
73. You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition. Nicki Minaj
74. We are aware that globalization doesn’t mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn’t mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either. Rene Girard
75. Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition. Jack Welch
76. The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. Howard Cosell
77. In a competition, there’s always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all. Antonio Brown
78. Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition. John Cena
79. Competition sparks excellency. Lorne Greene
80. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Jesse Owens
81. So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on. William Morris
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Quotes about Power
Below are some quotes about poetry and power:
82. When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy
83. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran
84. Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. Allen Ginsberg
85. The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert K. Chesterton
86. 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
87. The crown of literature is poetry. W. Somerset Maugham
88. I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet. Bob Dylan
89. A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie.
90. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates.
91. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
92. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
93. A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
94. A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis
95. Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
96. Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
97. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle
98. Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. Georges Braque
99. God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning
100. When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. Niels Bohr
101. Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti
102. Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
103. There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves
104. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
105. A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
106. The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Robert Penn Warren
107. Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg
108. I like poems that are little games. Peter Davison
109. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
110. Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Johann Georg Hamann
111. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Carl Sandburg
112. The poet may be used as a barometer, but people will forget that he is also part of the weather. Lionel Trilling
113. 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. John Keats
1113. Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. Alfred de Musset
114. A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. Anne Stevenson Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi
115. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Charles Simic
116. A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. Jean Cocteau
117. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
118. A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens
119. How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
120. Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman
Short Quotes of Encouragement
Below are poetic quotes that would encourage you:
121. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell
122. What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. Adam Braun
123. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke
124. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
125. I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. Charlie Sheen
126. In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any
127. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike
128. And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the ether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound
129. Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh
130. We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Maria Mitchell
131. Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden
132. You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
133. Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges. Amanda Gorman
134. Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. James Branch Cabell
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Poetic Quotes about Justice
Below are some quotes about poetry and justice:
135. There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. George
136. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. Seamus Heaney
137. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. Victor Hugo
138. I’ve often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. Yehuda Amichai
139. As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas Babington Macaulay Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. William Blake
140. Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. Romesh Gunesekera
141. Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they’re the things that sustain us. Rita Dove
142. 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
143. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats . Maya Angelou
144. In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything – from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up – grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. Renzo Piano
Quotes about Journaling
Below are some quotes about poetry and journaling:
145. Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Archibald MacLeish
146. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
147. Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. Adrian Mitchell
148. 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
149. Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. Marcel Duchamp
150. Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. Richard Eyre
151. Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Comte de Lautreamont
152. Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. David Whyte
153. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. Marcel Duchamp
154. Will Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman
155. What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it. Andrea Bocelli
156. Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty. Dennis Potter Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges
Quotes about Praise
The quotes below are quotes about poetry and praises:
157. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
158. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato
159. Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser
160. There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves
161. I have nothing to say; I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage
162. He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
163. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle
164. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Novalis
165. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. Paul Dirac
166. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
167. No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. Horace
168. One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire
189. Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker
170. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Deep Poetry Quotes
Below are quotes about poetry quotes in its dept:
171. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
172. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
173. I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. Carol Ann Duffy
174. The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
175. Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! Lord Byron
176. Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there’s no visual distraction. Billy Collins
177. Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
178. In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. Richard M. Nixon
179. I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne
180. Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn’t tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other. Michael Dirda
Famous Poetry Lines
The quotes below are famous quotes about poetry:
181. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats
182. Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Mahmoud Darwish
183. The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. Jean Cocteau
184. Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost
185. Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand
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