Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old poetry quotes, poetry sayings, and poetry proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Poetry is language in orbit.Seamus Heaney
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Poetry is words in space, representing words in time. Glyn Maxwell
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Poetry is the art of using words charged with their utmost meaning.Dana Gioia
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Poetry is a verdict that others give to language that is charged with music and rhythm and authority.Leonard Cohen
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Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.Bill Collins
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Poetry is a thief that comes in the middle of a new day, while the critics are still studying by night light.James Liddy
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Poetry expresses the newness of the day.Adam Zagajewski
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Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language.Peter Porter
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Poetry is a solitary art, more now than ever, and its proper audience is the deeply educated, solitary reader, or that reader sitting within herself in a theater.Harold Bloom
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A lot of poetry is a kind of soliloquy—and therefore one has no audience.Sorley Maclean
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Poetry—any art— has a psychic function, fulfilling a need in the individual artist, so that it would be produced even if there was no immediate audience.Thomas Kinsella
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Poetry is an endeavor so large and so deeply communal that if one person doesn't write a great poem, eventually somebody else will.Jane Hirschfield
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If there is an audience for poetry, it is an audience of privacy. Who isn't appalled to find someone else standing in the poetry section of a bookstore? Dean Young
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Poetry, like crime, can only be accomplished in absolute privacy and secrecy.Franz Wright
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If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.John Keats
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Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.Augustus and Julius Hare
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We can read poetry, and recite poetry, but to live poetry is the symphony of life.S. Frances Foote
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Poetry is a language which tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said.Edwin Robinson
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Poetry alone imagines, and imagining creates the world that people can wish to live in and make true.Archibald MacLeish
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You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through the truth.Joseph Joubert
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The great things in poetry are song at the core, but externally mere speech.Arthur Symons