983 Poetry Quotes for You to Enjoy

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats

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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. Jonas Mekas

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When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. Joy Harjo

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

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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

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley

World Beauty Hidden Objects Poetry Lifts Veil Makes Were Familiar

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost

Lost Translation Poetry Gets

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats

Others Ourselves Out Poetry Make Quarrel Rhetoric

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. Alice Oswald

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Allen Ginsberg

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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. Christian Louboutin

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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. David Knopfler

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