Poetry Quotes

• Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Hurt
  • Ignorance
  • Stupidity

• As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Creativity

• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry...about the country, the suburbs and the seaside...then there comes love...and increasingly, the fear of death.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Country
  • Death
  • Fear

• I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

  

  Edwin Morgan
  • Poetry

• 'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Important
  • Country
  • Book

• I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Feeling
  • Poetry

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • End
  • Irish
  • Colour

• I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • World
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

  

  Jeffery Deaver
  • Life
  • Poetry

• To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Necessary
  • Elevate

• Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• 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
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Poetry

• The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Gay

• It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Words
  • Serious

• History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • History

• We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Ability
  • Modern
  • Athens

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Poetry

• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Australia
  • Australian Literature
  • Bush Literature

• The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • World
  • Fall
  • Fate

• The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

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