Poetry Quotes And Sayings

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“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
– Thomas Gray

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
– Thomas Hardy

“Mathematics and Poetry are… the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.”
– Thomas Hill

“I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don’t have to write anymore.”
– Tukaram

“If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem.”
– Unknown

“If there were no clouds, we would not enjoy the sun.”
– Unknown

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
– Victor Hugo

“The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God; this is love.”
– Victor Hugo

“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”
– W.B. Yeats

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” 
– W.H. Auden

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
– W.H. Auden

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
– Wallace Stevens

“To have great poets there must be great audiences too.”
– Walt Whitman

“A poet, of all writers, has the best chance for immortality. Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”
– Washington Irving

“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.”
– William Blisset

“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.”
– William Bolitho

“Who can tell the dancer from the dance?”
– William Butler Yeats

“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
– William Hazlitt

“Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.”
– William Shakespeare

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.” 
– William Wordsworth

“Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.”
– William Wordsworth

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“A poet’s autobiography is his poetry.  Anything else is just a footnote.”
– Yevgeny Yentushenko

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