Poetry Quotes

"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." "Life is not a crystal stair, but a journey full of struggles and songs." "How frail the human heart must be a mirrored pool of thought " "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air" "The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling" "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night" "I sing the body electric" "The earth laughs in flowers " "It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end." "We are all writing God's poem"