Poetry

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley 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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

- Robert Frost 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

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

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

- Aristotle 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

It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir.

- William Dean Howells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

- John Barton 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

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 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

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

I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.

- M. Forster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Do not kick against the pricks.

- Aeschylus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

- A. E. Housman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

- David Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 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

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

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

The design is a public amenity, designed by a sculptor, which tries to invest a public facility with a bit more poetry than it otherwise might have.

- Martin Puryear Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

- F. L. Lucas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

- Robert Frost Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

- Kahlil Gibran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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