Quotes about Poetry

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed… 'to look at it through poetry.

and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves. I went up town and bought five volumes of poetry with it -- Tennyson, Byron, Milton, Longfellow, Whittier. I wanted something I could keep for ever in memory of having arrived.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.