Poetry Quotes

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

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

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”

“In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.”

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“Poetry is the voice of the spirit.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world.”

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.”

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”