Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Breathe-in experience,breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

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

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.
William Blissett

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

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 heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Language is fossil poetry

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence
Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all

Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved







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