Poetry Quotes

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Jack Prelutsky

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John Crowe Ransom

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

John Crowe Ransom

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

James Schuyler

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Jill Scott

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

John Singer Sargent

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Janine Turner

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Jesmyn Ward

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on...

Jess Walter

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Jess Walter

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Jewel

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Keith Haring