poetry Quotes

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.