Poetry Quotes

"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." ~Sigmund Freud

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost

"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

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." ~Dead Poet's Society

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." ~Robert Frost [I SO LOVE THIS ONE.. ♥]

"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness." ~Christopher Morley

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." ~Yevgeny Yentushenko, The Sole Survivor, 1982 [TOTALLY AGREE!!!]

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

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." ~Robert Frost

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say: "May new sufferings torment your soul." " ~Soren Kierkegaard

"I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me." ~Edith Södergran

"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance." ~Robert Frost

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know." ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

"The poet doesn't invent. He listens." ~Jean Cocteau