500+ Best Poetry love Quotes | Quotes about poetry

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. -William Hazlitt

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. -Andres Segovia

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. -Walter Scott

The crown of literature is poetry. -W. Somerset Maugham

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. -Ezra Pound

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -Don Marquis

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. -Denis Diderot

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicit y. -Tahar Ben Jelloun

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.n-Charles Baudelaire

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel