Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost
I was condemned to poetry. I was a dreamer: nose in a book, head in the clouds. – Fred Chappell
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. – William Wordsworth
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen
It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T. S. Eliot
Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know. – Andre Gide
A poet swallows life and exhales painted words. – Terri Guillemets
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valéry
A poet is a painter of the soul. – Isaac D’Israeli
I have always said that in print, a poem needs space to breathe – Gulzar
Poetry … is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E. B. White
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. – Charlie Chaplin
Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant, -the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert
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