Quotes about Poetry, page 5

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry

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

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry

Poetry is the rest of intelligence.

Quote by Titu Liviu Maiorescu about poetry

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Quote by Laurie Lee about poetry

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Quote by Laurie Lee about poetry

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Quote by Edward Young about poetry

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Quote by June Jordan about poetry

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Quote by June Jordan about poetry

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about poetry

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about poetry

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Quote by John Clare about poetry

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Quote by Edith Wharton about poetry

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about poetry

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Quote by Robert Graves about poetry

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Quote by Robert Graves about poetry