Poetry Quotes

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Mark Strand

If you love me, Henry, you don't love me in a way I understand.

Richard Siken

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My love, can't you seehow much i love theeFor i through your eyesshall seeOur great lovefor all eternity

Amal Sagheer

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Aristotle

someone's senta loving notein lines of returning geeseand as the moon fillsmy western chamberas petals danceover the flowing streamagain I think of youthe two of usliving a sadnessaparta hurt that can't be removedyet when my gaze comes downmy heart stays up

Orson Scott Card

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

Judith Rodriguez

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

George Watsky

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far

Mark Twain

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Candace Bushnell