Poetry Quotes

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Thomas Harrison

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

John Cage

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

Gordon Getty

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Dejan Stojanovic

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Norman MacCaig

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

Georges Seurat

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Joseph Roux

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

Jane Campion

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Paul Auster

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Vladimir Nabokov

Language is fossil poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

George Orwell

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Robert Frost

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Dejan Stojanovic