Poetry Quotes

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
- Robert Gilfillan

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
- Robert Frost

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- Rene Char

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
- Randall Jarell

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle

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