Quotes about Poetry, page 6

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

Quote by Robert Graves about poetry

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about poetry

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about poetry

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about poetry

...voyage through death to life upon these shores.

Quote by Robert Hayden about poetry

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Quote by Robert Southey about poetry

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Quote by Katharine Lee Bates about poetry

We plough the fields and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God's almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell the grain, The breezes and the sunshine And soft refreshing rain.

Quote by Matthias Claudius about poetry

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Quote by Adelbert von Chamisso about poetry

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Quote by Antonin Artaud about poetry

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry

From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Quote by André Breton about poetry

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about poetry

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry

Poetry is the art of making a sea to fit ina glass.

Quote by Isus Hristos about poetry

By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about poetry

The day begins to droop, Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun.

Quote by Robert Bridges about poetry