Quotes on Poetry

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

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.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.