Motivational Quotes

Poetry and poets

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

- Fitzgerald, Robert

Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Plath, Sylvia

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Field, Eugene

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Hare, David

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Nisker, Wes ''Scoop''

The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hardy, Thomas

Poets are born, not paid.

Mizner, Addison

We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Fowles, John

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

Sandburg, Carl

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Frost, Robert

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Massinger, Philip

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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Cocteau, Jean

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Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.

Fitzhugh, C.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Keats, John

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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Sandburg, Carl

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Sandburg, Carl

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Poetry is life distilled.

Brooks, Gwendolyn

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Frost, Robert

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joubert, Joseph

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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Graves, Robert

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Dickinson, Emily

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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Ginsberg, Allen

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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]

Voltaire

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Bodenheim, Maxwell

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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Eliot, T. S.

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A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Horace

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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

Auden, W. H.

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Roux, Joseph

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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Frye, Northrop

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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Woolf, Virginia

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

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Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Frost, Robert

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.