Poetry Quotes

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Shelley

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

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

Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

Poetry is devil's wine.

St. Augustine

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

Edmund Burke

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.

William Blissett

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Robinson Jeffers

Breathe-in experience,breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

W. H. Auden
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