Poetry Quotes

The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Lionel Trilling

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary
- Kahlil Gibran

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
- Joseph Joubert

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- John Fletcher

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
- John Fletcher

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- Horace