13,976 Quotes About Poetry

May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.