Poetry Quotes

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost

Life, Taking, Throat

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost

Politics, Grief, Grievance

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

Business, Life, Nothing

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Sorry, Magic

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It's not easy to define poetry.
Bob Dylan

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

Friendship, Friends, Others

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe

Passion, Purpose

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp

Beauty, Fear, Mind

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Words, Creation

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Book, Fire, Whole

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change, Science, Two

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Drunk, Wish

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken

Done, Enough, Convince

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

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

Off, Head, Taken

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Feelings, May

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo

Charm, Queen, Supreme

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Powerful, Feelings, Takes

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

True, Sense, Spirit

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Help, Language

Why should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie Chaplin

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Age, History, Through

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