Arts, Media & Entertainment: Poetry Quotes

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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Beauty is not caused. It is!"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"The eye is the notebook of the poet"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

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, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"I'm nobody, Who are you?"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"I dwell in Possibility"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience"

William Gibson, Writer

"When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages, and the thought of his own"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

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