Poetry Quotes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

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

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

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

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.