Famous poetry quotations

   The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.  Nice Word by Jean Cocteau, Le Rappel á l'ordre, 1926

   Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.  Meaningful Quotation by William Bolitho

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.  Good Quote by W.B. Yeats

   No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.  Wise Phrase by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

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

   Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.  Famous Saying by Percy Byshe Shelley

   Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.  Nice Word by Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, Poetry, Collected Poems, 1951

   The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.  Meaningful Quotation by Aristotle, On Poetics

   The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.  Good Quote by Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958

   Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.  Wise Phrase by Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

   A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.  Wise Phrase by Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957

   The poetry of the earth is never dead.  Famous Saying by John Keats

   The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.  Nice Word by Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

   We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society Meaningful Quotation by

   A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.  Good Quote by Rene Char

   A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.  Wise Phrase by Jean Cocteau

   Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.  Wise Phrase by Salvatore Quasimodo

   It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.  Famous Saying by Stephen Mallarme

   Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.  Nice Word by Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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

   A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.  Good Quote by Samuel McChord Crothers, Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else The Dame School of Experienc

   The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.  Wise Phrase by Robert Frost

   There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.  Wise Phrase by Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955

   You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.  Famous Saying by Joseph Joubert

   Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.  Nice Word by Allen Tate



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