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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Poetry

1.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell

2.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton

3.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves

4.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire

6.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
John Keats

7.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Edgar Watson Howe

9.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. Auden

10.
It's easier to quote poets than to read them.
Allison Barrows

11.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell

12.
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
M. C. Richards

13.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

14.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi

15.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell

16.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers

17.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau

18.
The freedom of poetic license.
Cicero

19.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace

20.
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. Chesterton

21.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert Heinlein


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