Poetry Quotes

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book smart.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Her thoughts are poetry, sheer beauty to behold, pay attention when she gives you a glimpse.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

Science is the poetry of reality.