Top 100 Poetry In Quotes
#1. Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
#2. One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle.
"One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard.
"You have no poetry in your heart, ser."
"You have shit upon your shoulder.
George R R Martin
#3. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.
Jess Walter
#4. I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
Billy Collins
#5. There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.
Robert Graves
#6. Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
Friedrich Schiller
#7. Poetry: Foolish Passion of My Youth
Poetry was the foolish passion of my youth,
forsaken for twenty years
to raise a family.
When I returned to poetry in this,
my Autumn years,
my childhood was returned.
Now Poetry raises me.
Beryl Dov
#8. The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey
#9. The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
Stephen Neufeld
#10. Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
Terry Eagleton
#11. Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.
Pablo Neruda
#13. I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
#14. Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
Octavio Paz
#15. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
June Jordan
#16. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.
Oscar Wilde
#17. Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
John Dryden
#18. Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#19. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Richard Dawkins
#20. Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
Beaumont Newhall
#21. In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
Will Durant
#22. We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.
Avijeet Das
#23. It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.
Thomas Dolby
#24. There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
Simone De Beauvoir
#25. When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
#26. There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.
Noam Shpancer
#27. In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo
#28. I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky
#29. In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
Ernst Haas
#30. The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together and individually. They are God's gifts to us so that we can be shaped as his gift to the world.
N. T. Wright
#32. I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
Edward Hirsch
#33. My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.
August Wilson
#34. They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
Terry Pratchett
#35. The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting
#36. What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#37. One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
Daniil Kharms
#38. She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her.
Sylvain Reynard
#39. To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Brian Harris
#40. There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.
Edward Hirsch
#41. All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.
Robert Zemeckis
#42. Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life.
Bobby Hundley
#43. The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.
Himmilicious
#44. Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.
Carlos Bulosan
#45. There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
Terry Brooks
#46. What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
James Fenton
#47. There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
Thom Gunn
#48. I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know.
Tennessee Williams
#49. Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
Lance Henriksen
#50. Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.
Alexander Pope
#51. Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.
Ken Ludwig
#52. Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
Bill Willingham
#53. We tell each other stories to help each other live. That's why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That's why I went to poetry in the first place, that's why I stay with it, that's why I'll never leave it.
Marie Howe
#54. I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
Anne Stevenson
#55. Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
Eddie Van Halen
#56. A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.
Quentin Tarantino
#57. And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first
discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.
Jane Austen
#58. Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
Emily Susan Rapp
#59. You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#60. Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.
Adrienne Rich
#61. We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.
Kim Hyesoon
#62. A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#64. Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'
Marco Rubio
#65. I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
Jonathan Galassi
#66. When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
Sigmund Freud
#67. Poetry in the darkest realm of my mind, blossoms into creations late at night when it is only me of the human kind and my felines sleeping just out of my sight.
Lyn Crain
#68. I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.
John McPhee
#69. First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.
Virginia Woolf
#70. There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words; my love is lived as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#72. I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.
Marc Norman
#73. I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.
Juliana Spahr
#74. I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
Paul Engle
#75. Proper names are poetry in the raw.
Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. Auden
#76. The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#77. Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
Robert E. Howard
#78. I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
Zephyr Teachout
#79. Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,
epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
Robert Graves
#81. Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully.
I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.
Richelle Mead
#82. He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking on a breathless lilt:
"Pale Fox's Daughter,
Her cherry lips haunt my dreams.
Something, something, breasts ...
Jay Kristoff
#83. It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.
Sam Hamill
#84. Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Georges Seurat
#85. There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
Francesco Clemente
#86. This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
June Jordan
#87. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Austen
#88. The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
#89. You'll have to take me to some museums, he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country.
Francesca Lia Block
#90. I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry.
Jesmyn Ward
#91. They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Georges Seurat
#92. Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
David Whyte
#93. Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.
Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
#94. For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."
John D'Agata
#95. to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature
William Wordsworth
#96. There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
#97. I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
John F. Kerry
#98. There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Anna Quindlen
#99. I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan
#100. Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
Compay Segundo
