poetry Quotes

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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