Quotes about Poetry
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
— Audre Lorde
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
— Nikki Giovanni
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
— Margaret Atwood
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
— John Wesley
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
— Aristotle
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.
— Joseph Brodsky
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
— William Wordsworth
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson