Poetry Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis, (1878-1937), American humorist, journalist
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux, (1834-1886), French priest, writer
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
James Branch Cabe11, (1879-1958), American novelist, essayist
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939) Irish poet, playwright
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire, (1694-1778), French philosopher, writer
The world, we believe, is pretty well agreed in thinking that the shorter a prize poem is, the better.
Lord Macaulay, (1800-1859) English historian
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864) English author
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost, (1875-1963) American poet
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
John Keats (1795-1821) English poet
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953), Welsh poet
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, essayist, poet
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield, (1878-1967)
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet’s; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic’s.
G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936) British author
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898) French Symbolist poet
Poetry is devil’s wine.
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian
The poet’s business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) English poet
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry (b. 1907) , British playwright
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats (1795-1821) , English poet
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis (1878-1937) , American humorist, journalist
Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme.
William Shakespeare, (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
