Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

Beauty crowds me till I die,Beauty, mercy have on me!But if I expire today,Let it be in sight of thee

Emily Dickinson

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country,the suburbs and the seaside...then there come's love..and increasingly; the fear of death

John Betjeman

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

Marc Wambolt

Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.

William Carlos Williams

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Hollace M. Metzger

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Elia Kazan

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

Leonard Cohen

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Andrew Motion

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

William Wordsworth

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin