Poetry and Poets Quotes
76 quotations about Poetry and Poets
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
A poet is born not made.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Authors on Poetry and Poets
Aristotle
W. H. Auden
John Barrymore
Charles Baudelaire
Maxwell Bodenheim
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lord Byron
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Jean Cocteau
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Emily Dickinson
Denis Diderot
Max Eastman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Farquhar
Eugene Field
Robert Fitzgerald
C. Fitzhugh
Gustave Flaubert