Poetry Quotes

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

God is the perfect poet.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.