Arts, Media & Entertainment: Poetry Quotes

This collection features memorable poetry quotations that celebrate language, rhythm, and imagery. From classical verse to contemporary voices, it gathers lines that resonate with feeling and craft. Themes include love, nature, time, and the music of speech, reflecting traditions from many cultures. Brief notes highlight authorship and historical context without overshadowing the words. Readers can browse, reflect, and share freely.

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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"In me the tiger sniffs the rose"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

Siegfried Sassoon

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Poetry is life distilled"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star"

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Educator

"Every harlot was a virgin once"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

Alfred Noyes

"Poetry: the best words in the best order"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

Arthur Rimbaud

"I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry"

John Cage, Composer

John Cage

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"London, thou art the flower of cities all!"

William Dunbar, Poet

William Dunbar

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

Eli Khamarov

"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships"

Charles Simic, Poet

"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands"

Karin Boye, Poet

Karin Boye

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"Words make love with one another"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet"

Torquato Tasso, Poet

"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms"

Angelus Silesius, Poet

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