18 poetry quotes to get you inspired
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1. Virginia Woolf’s quotes about priest, poetry and friend
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
by Virginia Woolf -
2. John Keats ‘s quote about poetry. Poetry should please by a…
“Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”
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3. Plutarch ‘s quote about painting, poetry. Painting is silent poetry, and…
Quotes by Plutarch : “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” -
4. Robert Frost ‘s quote about poetry. Poetry is a way of…
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
by Robert Frost -
5. Plato ‘s quote about poetry, truth. Poetry comes nearer to vital…
“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
by Plato -
6. Mario Cuomo ‘s quote about . You campaign in poetry. You…
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
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7. E.C. Stedman ‘s quote about . Poetry is an art, and…
“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.”
by E.C. Stedman -
8. Lord Byron ‘s quote about . [Poetry] is the lava of…
“[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
by Lord Byron -
9. Christopher Fry ‘s quote about . Poetry is the language in…
Quotes by Christopher Fry : “Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” -
10. Norweigen Playwright ‘s quote about . Poetry is to hold judgment…
Quotes by Henrik IbsenNorweigen Playwright : “Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.” -
11. Osho ‘s quote about love, creative . To be creative means to…
Quotes by Osho : “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” -
12. Robert Gould ‘s quote about kindness, relationship. A constructive, useful life, good…
Quotes by Robert Gould : “A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough.” -
13. Beverly Nichols ‘s quote about . Marriage: a book of which…
Quotes by Beverly Nichols : “Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” -
14. Socrates ‘s quote about . I decided that it was…
Quotes by Socrates : “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -
15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘s quote about . Personality is everything in art…
Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : “Personality is everything in art and poetry.” -
16. Socrates ‘s quote about . I decided that it was…
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
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17. R.Z. Sheppard ‘s quote about . Adjectives are the potbelly of…
Quotes by book criticR.Z. Sheppard : “Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.” -
18. Alfred North Whitehead ‘s quote about . Through and through the world…
Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead : “Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.”
