Poetry Quotes (1029 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Marguerite Young
„I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.“
Picture of quotation author Marguerite Young
„I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.“
Picture of quotation author Edward Young
„There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.“
― Edward Young ―
Picture of quotation author Yevgeny Yevtushenko
„Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.“
Picture of quotation author Yevgeny Yevtushenko
„A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.“
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.“
Picture of quotation author Yanni
„There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.“
― Yanni ―
Picture of quotation author Steven Wright
„I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.“
― Steven Wright ―
Picture of quotation author William Wordsworth
„Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.“
Picture of quotation author Virginia Woolf
„Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.“
― Virginia Woolf ―
Picture of quotation author Virginia Woolf
„Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.“
― Virginia Woolf ―
Picture of quotation author George Edward Woodberry
„Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.“
Picture of quotation author George Edward Woodberry
„The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.“
Picture of quotation author Tobias Wolff
„I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.“
― Tobias Wolff ―
Picture of quotation author Amy Winehouse
„I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.“
― Amy Winehouse ―
Picture of quotation author Walter Jon Williams
„Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.“
Picture of quotation author Saul Williams
„More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.“
― Saul Williams ―
Picture of quotation author Saul Williams
„I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.“
― Saul Williams ―
Picture of quotation author Saul Williams
„I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.“
― Saul Williams ―
Picture of quotation author C. K. Williams
„My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.“
― C. K. Williams ―

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