Poetry quotes

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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.

I love romantic poetry.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

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

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

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