Poetry Quotes

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

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

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.