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.

• 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.

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

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