Top 20 Poetry Quotations

Explore the Meaning of Poetry and the motivation of Poets with this special collection of evocative quotations...

A Poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
-- Anonymous

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of Poetry.
-- Georges Brague

The Poet doesn't invent. He listens.
--Jean Cocteau

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in Poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac

Genuine Poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-- T. S. Eliot

The adventitious beauty of Poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the Poem.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not a particle of life wh ich does not bear Poetry within it.
-- Gustave Flaubert

A Poem begins with a lump in the throat.
--Robert Frost

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
-- Christopher Fry

There's no money in Poetry, but there's no Poetry in money, either.
-- Robert Ranke Graves

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
-- Henrik Ibsen

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 F. Kennedy

Perhaps no person can be a Poet, or can even enjoy Poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
--Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Science is for those who learn; Poetry, for those who know.
-- Joseph Roux

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
--Percy Byshe Shelley

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this Poem into a blanket.
--Charles Simic

A Poem is never finished, only abandoned.
--Paul Valry

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
-- Voltaire

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
-- William Wordsworth

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