GOOD POETIC QUOTES

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats

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

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” – William Wordsworth

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.” – Dennis Gabor

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

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

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

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” – W.H. Auden

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” – Audre Lorde

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

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove WORLD WAR 2 FAMOUS QUOTES

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” – Charles Bukowski

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” – Paul Valéry

“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” – June Jordan

“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.” – Augustus William Hare

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

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” – Plato

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” – Thomas Gray

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.” – Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

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

“Poetry is life distilled.” – Gwendolyn Brooks