Quotes About Poetry

• Judith Rodriguez

  I write poetry in order to live more fully.

• John Colville

  He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...

• Toi Derricotte

  Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...

• Christopher Smart

  For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...

• Zona Gale

  I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...

• Alfred Douglas

  All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...

• Elizabeth Jennings

  For me poetry is always a search for order.

• Tom Wesselmann

  I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

• Georges Seurat

  Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

• Lucille Clifton

  Poetry is a matter of life not just a matter of language.