If you know me at all, you know I LOVE a good quote. Here are 12 amazing quotes about poetry that I’ve collected to share with you. Let me know what you think.

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” -Marianne Moore

“Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry. My poetry is, or should be, useful to me for one reason: it is the record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light.” -Dylan Thomas

“I’m not very good at praying, but what I experience when I’m writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.” -Denise Levertov

“Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.” -Dylan Thomas

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.  -Carl Sandburg

“If I were in solitary confinement, I’d never write another novel, and probably not keep a journal, but I’d write poetry, because poems, you see, are between God and me.” -May Sarton

“Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.” – Mary Oliver

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.  -Robert Graves

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.
-Emily Dickinson

“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.” May Sarton

Poetry is life distilled.  -Gwendolyn Brooks

Poets are like magicians, searching for magical phrases to pull rabbits out of people’s souls.  -Terri Guillemets

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How did you like theses quotes about poetry? Do you have a favorite quote or a favorite poet? If so, I’d love to hear from you.

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