500+ Best Poetry love Quotes | Quotes about poetry

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. -John Ruskin

I love romantic poetry. -Richard Dawkins

The poetry of the earth is never dead. -John Keats

Poetry Quotes- should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. -John Keats

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. -Emily Dickinson

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. -Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. -Edmund Burke

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. -T. S. Eliot

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. -Richard Dawkins

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. -Niels Bohr

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -T. S. Eliot

Why should poetry have to make sense? -Charlie Chaplin

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. -Emily Dickinson

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -William Wordsworth

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. -William Blake

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -Horace Walpole

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. -Audre Lorde

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. -Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. -James Joyce

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. -John Updike

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

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. -Gustave Flaubert

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. -Ezra Pound

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. -A. E. Housman

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. -Havelock Ellis

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. -Charles Baudelaire

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. -Richard M. Nixon

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. -Charles Baudelaire

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. -J. K. Rowling

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. -John Donne(Poetry love Quotes)

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. -Muhammad Iqbal

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. -Satyajit Ray

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. -Pablo Neruda

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. -Sylvia Plath

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. -Joseph Joubert