Arts, Media & Entertainment: Poetry Quotes

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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

Arthur Rimbaud

"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

Paul Dirac

"Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

Matthew Arnold

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"Poetry: a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

Matthew Arnold

"I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"The death of a beautiful woman, is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and, like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

Pablo Neruda

"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others"

Antonin Artaud, Dramatist

Antonin Artaud

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"And tears are heard within the harp I touch"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"Silence is more musical than any song"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture"

Helen Hayes, Actress

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