“100+ Poetry Quotes” is a collection that celebrates the beauty and power of words. With over a hundred quotes, this compilation offers insights and inspiration from renowned poets and thinkers throughout history. Whether you’re a poetry lover or simply appreciate the art of expression, these quotes provide a profound glimpse into the world of emotions, creativity, and the enduring impact of poetry on the human soul. Whether you seek poetic wisdom or wish to explore the depths of language, this anthology offers a captivating journey through the realm of verse and prose.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
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.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
A good poet does not borrow; he steals.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers and alleys that run in every direction, with subway lines that deliver the inhabitants to the feet of a queen or a con man who lives at the end of a long alley filled with doors.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
A good poet does not borrow; he steals.
