Famous Poetry Quotes in English with Images

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma.  In the afternoon I put it back again.

You ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see affine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The freedom of poetic license.

It’s easier to quote poets than to read them.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect; the priests, the soldier, the poet.  To know, to kill, to create.

- Poetry Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

A poem is not place for an idea.

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Poetry is the deification of reality.

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

Poetry often enter through the window of irrelevance.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.  But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Most people ignore most poetry
because
Most poetry ignores people.

A poet’s hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
Local, but prized elsewhere.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless things.