Browse 12091 quotes about Poetry.
“The crown of literature is poetry.”
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
“Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!”
“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”
“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.”
“As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.”
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”