Poetry Quotes and Sayings

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; – poetry; the best words in the best order.
– S.T.Coleridge

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
– Adrian Mitchell

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
– George Sand

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
– Robert Graves

Poems of any length are inherently complete in themselves.
– Gulzar

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
– Charlie Chaplin

Well, write poetry, for Gods sake, its the only thing that matters.
– E. E. Cummings

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
– T.S.Eliot

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
– J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.
– William Blissett

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
– William Hazlitt

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
– Robert Frost