Poetry Quotes

History is the new poetry.

Thomas Carlyle
- History
- Poetry
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Khalil Gibran
- Pain
- Joy
- Wonder

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Helen Keller
- Heart
- Poetry
Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Nicholson Baker
- Poetry
- Motion
- Prose
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound
- Poetry
- Stars