63 Quotes about Poetry

1. The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
   Poems of Encouragement




2. The best poetry opens our hearts and our eyes and makes us realize that many of the issues we face today, people have faced the same challenges hundreds of years ago. Catherine Pulsifer
   Famous Poems




3. In the Bible, the most ancient of records, we find man, at a very early period, forming both wind and stringed instruments, modulating his speech into verse, and exhibiting in the very earliest instance on record that peculiar parallelism that characterized the Hebrew poetry of all subsequent ages. Author Unknown
   Christian Poems




4. Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. Robert Green Ingersoll
   The Oak Tree Poem





5. Poetry, with its beauty and many, many forms, gives us much to learn. A poem is a pattern, an etching for us to enjoy, a word picture or song-in words. Grace Porterfiled Polk
   Learning Quotes




6. Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday. Ted Koosner
   Valentines Day Poems




7. Who loves all beauty doth a poet grow, and wins the highest joy that mortals know. James B. Wiggin, Teach A Child
   Poems about Children




8. Oh, I could write a book or two. Or a poem but this verse will have to do. Catherine Pulsifer, Love You More
   Short Fathers Day Verses





9. Poetry also can enter the soul. It can inspire hope and aspirations and evoke beauty and delight. Gail Harvey
   Poems About Hope




10. Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow, where "blisses" rhymed with "kisses," "heart", with "dart." Yet, reading it, new strength I seemed to borrow, to live on bravely, and to do my part. Ella Wheeler Wilcox,Only A Simple Rhyme
    Love Poetry




11. Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh
    Famous Poets




12. Read poetry that is upbeat it will give you a mini-retreat.   Catherine Pulsifer, Watch What You Read
    Poems About Reading




13. With books as guides, with prophet, poet, sage, in sweet companionship we daily dwell Alfred Lavington, Books
    Poems About Books




14. Love poetry contains within its verses some of the best quotes. Poetry has a way of expressing thoughts and placing words that give us encouragement and inspiration! Catherine Pulsifer
    Love Poetry Quotes





15. It may be argued that these anonymous poems are the most beloved. These are, after all, lines that have been handed down through the generations. John Boyes
    Positive Messages




16. Every sunrise is a poem written on the earth with words of light, warmth, and love. Debasish Mridha
    Sunrise Quotes




17. I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, the manifold, soft chimes, that fill the haunted chambers of the Night, like some old poet's rhymes. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hymn Of The Night
    Poems About Night




18. Poetry resembles these clouds; it dwells somewhere in between the melancholy and the answers. Misbah Khan
    Quotes About Clouds




19. Take your materials from what is around you – if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it’s misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. Masaoka Shiki
    Dandelion Poems




20. Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you. Caroline George
    I Miss You Poems




21. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare
    Book Quotes




22. Poetry, especially a favorite poem can bring back memories, it can make you feel happy or sad. Poems can inspire and motivate! Samatha Anne Marie Lynch
    Poems About Happiness





23. The poetry of earth is never dead...The poetry of earth is ceasing never John Keats
    Grasshopper Poem




24. World without poetry is like a lover without a rose Shiny
    Rose Poems




25. To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie–true poems flee. Emily Dickinson
    Quotes About Summer




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




27. It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem. Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. Hezekiah Butterworth Morning Prayer Devotion




28. Wisdom and poetry are like fruit for children, unwholesome if too fresh. W. S. Landor
    Wisdom Quotes




29. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
    Memories Quotes





30. Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. Dennis Gabor
    Short Love Poems




31. Writing poetry can help express your feelings. Mary S. Scotsburn
    Short Quotes




32. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
    Fire and Ice Poem




33. Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle
    Inspirational Quotes




34. Poetry is not always words. Audrey Foris
    Short Inspirational Quotes





35. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato
    Truth Quotes




36. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Robert Penn Warren
    Life Quotes




37. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer, Trees
    Tree Poems




38. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves
    Money Quotes





39. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T.S. Eliot
    Easy Poems To Understand




40. A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Think On These Things




41. 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. T. S. Eliot
    Attitude Quotes





42. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
    Difficult Times Quotes




43. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
    Innovation Quotes




44. If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. Charles Darwin
    Poems about Life





45. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
    Selfie Quotes




46. Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays, old times, old loves, old friendship, and old wine Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Poems




47. The creative power of love reveals itself most eloquently in poetic form, for without poetry love is wordless, and without love poetry lacks an energy and dynamism that only love can generate. Suheil Bushrui, The World's Favorite Love Poems
    Short Love Quotes




48. Sometimes poetry is a journey run by words which compose themselves whilst the emotions of the one who writes settle on paper, and from there to the sensitive fibre of the one who reads attentively. Gabriela Olivares
    Motivational Quotes





49. Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Positive Poems




50. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song. David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
    Thoughful Quotes




51. One can make a poem out of anything Jaymac, One Can Make A Poem
    Easy Poems




52. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
    Poems About Being In Love





53. Poems tell a story - it's just that the words rhyme. L.V. Seachild, Valentine's Day: Poems For The Varying Emotions Of Love
    Proverbs




54. A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. Dylan Thomas
    Positive Quotes About Change




55. The poetry of earth is never dead John Keats, On the Grasshopper and the Cricket Grasshopper Poem




56. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare
    Inspirational Poems





57. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe
    Creativity Quotes




58. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Enjoy Life Quotes




59. The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. W.B. Yeats
    Friendship Quotes




60. To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman
    Appreciation Quotes





61. Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg
    Cute Quotes




62. The world presents its Christ to-day, in poetry and art Ellwood Haines Stokes, The Christ-Child Of The Heart
    Poems About Jesus




63. Come, read to me some poem, some simple and heartfelt lay, that shall soothe this restless feeling, and banish the thoughts of day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, How Beautiful is the Rain
    Simplicity Poem