Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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

Turning pain into poetry turns rainy days into rainbows and raw dirt into meadows.

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

whenever I look at you my thoughts are full of sensual poetry. But would I write about my feelings for you, my pen would begin to glow and my paper would immediately catch fire.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.