Quotes about Poetry
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
— Robert Frost
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
— William Hazlitt
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
— Washington Irving
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
— Henry David Thoreau
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
— Marcus Aurelius
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
— Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
— CS Lewis
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
— GK Chesterton
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
— CS Lewis