Arts, Media & Entertainment: Poetry Quotes

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"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

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers"

Horace, Poet

"Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

J. R. R. Tolkien

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do"

Mark Van Doren, Poet

"But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet, he is also a great psychologist"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance"

A. R. Ammons, Poet

"I am the Empire at the end of the decadence"

Paul Verlaine, Poet

Paul Verlaine

"Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please"

Samuel Wesley, Composer

Samuel Wesley

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"One thought fills immensity"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"If the object of poetry is to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, and the blood coursing in the veins of the moon"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Art: If the object of poetry is to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"The human voice is the organ of the soul"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"This dark brightness that falls from the stars"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

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