Poetry Quotes

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Lynch

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up ...

Taylor Mali

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

Taylor Momsen

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Thurston Moore

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Trevor McDonald

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Taslima Nasrin

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I d...

Tea Obreht

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Taylor Swift

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Tinie Tempah

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Tom Waits

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Umberto Eco

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen