poetry Quotes

“She's brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:life writing poetry

“Grunts and nods don't add up to poetry. But maybe writing poetry brings out some hidden talent in the guy.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:poetry personality

“You see, poetry resembles metaphysics, one does not mind one's own, but one does not like any one else's.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:music poetry

“Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

topic:truth light poetry

“I've always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

topic:pain poetry

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

topic:books poetry

“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:words poetry

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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