Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Discovered deeply within the depths of much suffering came forth my love of poetry.

Painting is silent poetry.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.

It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.