Famous Quotes About poetry

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.