Poetry Quotes

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.

I think that to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader’s sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer – is the peculiar function of poetry.

What can be explained is not poetry.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

They say it is written in the stars, but the stars only echo the poetry in the heart.

what is my poetry if not all of my sorrows blooming?

She’s made up of sweet tea and poetry.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.