Poetry Quotes

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
- George Crabbe

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth-the true poet is very near the oracle.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
- Carl Sandburg

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
- Edgar Allan Poe

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
- E B White

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
- Dylan Thomas

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
- Carl Sandburg

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley