Poetry Quotes and Messages

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Oh, speak no ill of poetry, For 'tis a holy thing.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots...

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

The prose is a museum where all the old weapons of poetry are kept.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The world is full of poetry.

Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Don’t write love poems when you’re in love. Write them when you’re not in love.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It was at that age, that poetry came in search of me.

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and thought has found words.

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar’s atmosphere.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.

Poetry is something best words in the best order.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Poetry is the revolution and the raising of consciousness.

Love recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.