Poetry Quotes And Sayings

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“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”
– Richard Rosen

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
– Rita Dove

“God is the perfect poet.”
– Robert Browning

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
– Robert Frost

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
– Robert Frost

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
– Robert Frost

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
– Robert Frost

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
– Robert Frost

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”
– Robert Frost

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
– Robert Graves

“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” 
– Robert Penn Warren

“Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.”
– Robinson Jeffers

“There is poetry as soon as we realize we possess nothing.”
– Roger McGough

“If you got to talking to most cowboys, they’d admit they write ‘em.  I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.”
– Ross Knox

“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”
– Sainte-Beuve

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
– Salman Rushdie

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”
– Salvatore Quasimodo

“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet.  So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”
– Samuel McChord Crothers

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is the blossom and fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions and language.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and then people crowd about the poet and say to him:  “Sing for us soon again;” that is as much as to say, “May new sufferings torment your soul.” 
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
– St. Augustine

“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
– Stephen Mallarme

“If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.”
– Stephen Spender

“Poetry is frosted fire.”
– T.S. Eliot

“The poet doesn’t invent.  He listens.”
– T.S. Eliot

“A sold poem loses half its meaning.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree.”
– Terri Guillemets

“The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.”
– Terri Guillemets

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

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