Poetry Quotes

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Bob Dylan

It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

Blake Jenner

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Bobby McFerrin

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ben Shapiro

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Caitriona Balfe

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Candace Bushnell

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charlie Chaplin

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy