Poetry Quotes

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Horace

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

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

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well

Paul Valery

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat

Thomas Fuller

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions

Joseph Roux

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls

James Russell Lowell

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

Leo Stein

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

Oscar Wilde

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord Byron

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Voltaire
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