Famous Quotes About Poetry

Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)”

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

Quote from “Boy: Tales Of Childhood”

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great.

Roald Dahl

Quote from “Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1800)”

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer”

A poem...begins as a lump in the throat,
a sense of wrong,
a homesickness,
a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)”

If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson

Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)”

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Dickinson

Quote from “Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry In Complete Poems (1950)”

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner

Carl Sandburg