Best Famous Poetry Quotes Beauty
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15 Good Poetry Quotes Collection
Salman Rushdie
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
E. M. Forster
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness.
Samuel McChord Crothers
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Jean Cocteau
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.
Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Alfred de Musset
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
A. E. Housman
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
George Sand
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Voltaire
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
