Poetry

The truest words spoken by any poet are those of Labid 'Know that everything is vanity save God.'

- Prophet Muhammad Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

- Robert Frost Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Do not kick against the pricks.

- Aeschylus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.

- Alan Alexander Milne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats.

- Dorothy Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

- Aristotle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

- Walt Whitman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

- Matthew Arnold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

- Marianne Craig Moore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

- Carl Sandburg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

- Amy Clampitt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

- Carl Sandburg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Emily Dickinson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.

- John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

- H. Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

- Friedrich von Schlegel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

- Gyorgy Ligeti Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is an expression to release your inner perspective on life, love, and nostalgia.

- A.J. Chilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

- Robert Anson Heinlein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes