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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
– Paul Valéry
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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
– T.S. Eliot
We learn what poetry is – if we ever learn – by reading it.
– T.S. Eliot
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry –That is a life.
– T.S. Eliot
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
– T.S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
– T.S. Eliot
Spontaneous rhythm and rhyme
Appearing from time to time
Effortlessly in some lines
Unintended to be verse,
Yet prose, they don’t seem to be;
That, to me, is poetry!
– Boghos L. Artinian
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
– Charlie Chaplin
Well, write poetry, for Gods sake, its the only thing that matters.
– E. E. Cummings
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; – poetry; the best words in the best order.
– S.T.Coleridge
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
– Adrian Mitchell
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
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
– J. Patrick Lewis
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.
– William Blissett
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
– William Hazlitt
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
– Robert Frost
Short Quotes And Poems
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
– Oscar Wilde
It’s easier to quote poets than to read them.
– Allison Barrows
Poetry is reverie on paper.
– Terri Guillemets
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
– Joseph Joubert
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
– Carl Sandburg
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
– Quentin Tarantino
Poetry slips a silk dress over naked prose.
– James Lendall Basford
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
– Gustave Flaubert
The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.
– Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
– Christopher Fry
Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant, -the most frivolous of all things, or the most important.
– Alexandre Vinet
A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.
– Terri Guillemets
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
– Maxwell Bodenheim
A poet is a painter of the soul.
– Isaac D’Israeli
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
– John Cage
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me – others may have wine, but I have poetry.
– Terri Guillemets
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
– Novalis
I was condemned to poetry. I was a dreamer: nose in a book, head in the clouds.
– Fred Chappell
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
– James Branch Cabell
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
– Robert Frost
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
– John Keats
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
– Carl Sandburg
Best Poem Quotes
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
– W.B. Yeats
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
– Plato
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
– Percy Shelley
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
– Eli Khamarov
Always be a poet, even in prose.
– Charles Baudelaire
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
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
– Robert Graves
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
– Khalil Gibran
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
– Leonard Cohen
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
– Gustave Flaubert
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
– E. B. White
Poetry … is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
– Salvatore Quasimodo
I would define … the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
– Andre Gide
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
– William Wordsworth
It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
– T. S. Eliot
Quotes Poems And Sayings
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
– John Keats
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
– Carl Sandburg
M Quotes And Poems Friendship
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
– Thomas Hardy
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
– Robert Graves
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.
– Allen Ginsberg
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
I have always said that in print, a poem needs space to breathe
– Gulzar
Poems of any length are inherently complete in themselves.
– Gulzar
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poems And Quotes About Life
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
– Robert Frost