Quotes on Poetry By Famous Poets

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one,_x000D_ and a beauty, which is truth,_x000D_ and a truth, which is beauty,_x000D_ is the aim of both.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.