(1267 quotes found)
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
Lord Byron
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
Robert Graves
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
Plato
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”
William Wordsworth
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert Frost
“For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.”
Robert Penn Warren
“Poetry should only occupy the idle.”
“I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.”
John Lennon
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
Carl Sandburg
