"Poetry" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

Life

Poetry

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry

Spirit

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry

Experience

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg

Poetry

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick William Robertson

Poetry

Office

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

Art