Poetry Quotes

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Bad, Feeling, Genuine

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Survive, 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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Means, Emotions, Emotion

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Words, Thought, Found

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Wrong, Sense, Begins

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

Pain, Joy, Wonder

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Words, Creation

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

Before, Genuine, Understood

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

History, Truth, Nearer

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

Everything, Thought, Reading

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

Words, Few, Says

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Subject, Cheese

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

Silent, Painting, Speaks

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Dance, Shadow, Asking

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

Love, Person, Before

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.
Salman Rushdie

Work, Sleep, Start

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

Great, Poets, Audiences

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Leaving, Moment

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Art, Pleasure

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

True, Nothing, Together

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Religion, Clearly, Prophecy

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Evidence, Burning

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