Poetry Quotes

Poetry saved my torn heart.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

Her face was art and her body was poetry in a short black dress.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

Let’s make the world wait while we write poetry and talk about love.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.

It is a lonely thing to do to stare at the stars and see poetry.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.