Poetry Quotes & Sayings
These poetry quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. - T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. - Marianne Moore
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. - John Cage
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. - James Branch Caball