Poetry Sayings & Quotes
These poetry sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.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 deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. - Khalil Gibran
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. - Joseph Joubert
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. - Boris Pasternak
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost
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