43 Poetry Quotes by Famous Poets (WORDSMITH)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes on Poetry (BEST)

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley — Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden **beauty** of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. - Alice Walker — Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. – **Alice Walker**

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost — Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – **Robert Frost**

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. - William Wordsworth — Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William Wordsworth

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. - James Joyce — Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – **James Joyce**

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. - Carl Sandburg — Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – **Carl Sandburg**

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy — Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by **nature**, but the measure can be acquired by art. — **Thomas Hardy**

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch — Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – **Plutarch**

11 Inspiring Deep Quotes About Poetry

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
Paul Engle

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. — Robert Graves

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. - Bob Dylan — I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet. – **Bob Dylan**

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg — Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg

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 — 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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. - Edgar Allan Poe — With me poetry has not been a **purpose**, but a **passion**. – **Edgar Allan Poe**

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson — If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – **Emily Dickinson**

It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. — T. S. Eliot — It is a test [that] genuine poetry can **communicate** before it is understood. — **T. S. Eliot**

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. - David Carradine — If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. – David Carradine

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. - William Hazlitt — Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. - Dennis Gabor — Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making **music** with them. – Dennis Gabor

14 Quotes on The Definition of Poetry

“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

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. - Edgar Allan Poe — I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. – **Edgar Allan Poe**

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen — Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — William Butler Yeats

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau — The poet is a liar who always speaks the **truth**. – Jean Cocteau

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley — A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own **solitude** with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
Soren Kierkegaard