Poetry Quotes

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.