Poetry Quotes

• Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.

  

  Max Planck
  • Knowledge
  • Rest
  • Imagination

• Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.

  

  George Farquhar
  • Poetry
  • Drug

• Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Moments
  • Poetry

• In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Children
  • Book
  • Poetry

• I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Poetry
  • Creed

• Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

  

  James Buchan
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Poetry
  • Missing

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Soul
  • Humanity
  • Fiction

• When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Writing
  • College
  • Poetry

• Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Business
  • Poetry

• I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Good
  • Poetry
  • Discipline

• ...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Age
  • Progress

• Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Inspiration
  • Perception
  • Poet

• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• 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

• The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Bible

• Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry

• I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Poetry

• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

  

  David Hare
  • Poetry

• Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

  

  Amy Clampitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Mad

• For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Giving
  • Form
  • Activism

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