FAMOUS POETS QUOTES ABOUT POETRY

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

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.” – Carl Sandburg

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” – Salman Rushdie

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T. S. Eliot

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death-bed.” – W.B. Yeats

“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” – Alice Walker

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, which the reader recognizes as his own.” – Salvatore Quasimodo

“A poet’s mission is to make moments of empathy in language.” – Adrienne Rich MISSING SPECIAL MOMENTS QUOTES

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind.” – Eileen Myles

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” – Marianne Moore

“Poetry, even when seemingly most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” – James Baldwin

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” – Paul Engle

“A poet’s job is to translate unspeakable emotional states into unspeakable linguistic forms.” – Hanif Abdurraqib

“The act of writing poetry is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn’t matter.” – Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a way of seeing things.” – John Keats

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” – Joseph Roux

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” – Christopher Fry