Poetry Quotes

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

            - Plato

 

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

            - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

            - Edgar Allen Poe

 

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

            - Robert Frost

 

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen

            - Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

            - Dennis Gabor

 

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

            - Percy Shelley