Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
C.D. Wright
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If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
Luke Davies
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We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.
Edouard Glissant
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Bob Dylan
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
Oscar Wilde
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
Wallace Stevens
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
Mary Oliver
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When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn’t read poetry much anyway.
John Ashbery
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When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
Billy Collins
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Where I come from, we sing poetry.
Derek Walcott
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Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
Alexander McCall Smith
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Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
Dean Young
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
Gaston Bachelard
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My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
Hafez Nazeri
