Poetry Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

I’ve always written poetry but I didn’t realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That’s when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Your poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.