Famous Quotes About poetry

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

Always be a poet, even in prose.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.