Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
14 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Poetry
"The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."
Dylan Thomas
I want to write love poems so sweet that the ink on the paper attracts honey bees.
Rudy Francisco
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Amiri Baraka
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Umberto Eco
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything
Steven Wright
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
