Poetry Quotes

Every soul is a poem.
Michael Franti

Everyone thinks they are a collection of poems or to write a novel.
Marilyn hacker

Everything we create is true, you can quite safe. Poetry is asprecise geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, but he never wrote a line in his life.
George Sand

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren

If a poem to be reduced to a sentence in prose there can be little to stand.
James Schuyler

I love this game poems.
Peter Davison

I sometimes speak to a poem in the poem.
Howard Nemerov

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
Carol Ann Duffy

I read the dictionary. I found a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

If Galileo had said in verse that the world is past, the Inquisitionalone, let him.
Thomas Hardy

If you are not a poet, his poem.
David Carradine

If you read quickly through a poem for what it means, you missed the body of the poem.
Mr. H. Abrams

No poem is easy to understand, so why all readers to expect quick results?
John Barton

No poems can be long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

One of the merits of poetry few persons deny: it says more in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

It will never look at a birch tree, according to the Robert Frost poem,exactly.
Paul Muldoon

Pain is filtered in a poem, so that, finally, at the end, fun.
Mark Strand