Poetry Quotes

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Isn’t this loneliness a strange poetry? you want everyone to read, but you are never willing to write it down.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.