Poetry Quotes

"Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties." "As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do." "Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" "Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust Cloud-dust Storm-dust And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale" "My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying." "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "What light through yonder window breaks?" "This is a perfect example of why it is so difficult to be a singer and not a poet." "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Science is the poetry of reality." "Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread " "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." "To make words sing, a poet must have music in his soul."