Poetry Quotes

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great, Find, Cannot

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

Understand, Written

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

Enough, Here, Themselves

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

Girl, Writing, Black

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Made, Why, Away

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

Best, True, Full

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service

Mother, Try, Write

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster

Touch, Seek, Objects

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

Science, Before, Tell

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia

Music, Forward, Heart

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott

Wisdom, Mind, Children

The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham

Literature, Crown

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats

Great, Soul, Subject

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After, Seems, Quit

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt

Nature, Respect, Heart

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

Rain, Between, Born

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath

Blood, Stopping, Jet

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert

Find, Bring, Unless

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

Saying, Two, Loving

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal

Truth, Heart, Philosophy

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Age, Youth

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire

Music, Human, Everything

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
J. K. Rowling

Read, Touch, Turn

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Saying, Words

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis

Money, Thinking, Paper

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