Poetry+Quotes

// …wrote John Adams in a letter to his fourteen-year-old son, John Quincy Adams, who was studying in //// Amsterdam ////. // ** All men are poets at heart **. // Ralph Waldo Emerson // Every man will be a poet if he can. ** // Thoreau // We scribble poetry all alike. ** // Horace // // Martial // Poets are born… ** // Sir Philip Sydney // //St. Augustine// // Samuel Rogers // // Samuel Johnson // // Horace // // John Dryden // // Song by Kaufman and Anthony // // Adrian Mitchell // // John F. Kennedy // // Robert Frost // // Wallace Stevens // // Robert Graves // // Paul Valery // Joyce Kilmer
 * Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining, and constructive companions through your whole life . . . You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. You will never have an idle hour. **
 * He does not write whose verses no on reads. **
 * Poetry is devil’s wine. **
 * Poetry, the language of the gods… **
 * Poetry cannot be translated. **
 * As is a picture, so is a poem. **
 * A poet does not work by square or line **
 * Poetry in Motion **
 * …most poetry ignores most people. **
 * When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. **
 * Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. **
 * Poetry is the supreme fiction. **
 * If there’s no money in poetry, **
 * Neither is there poetry in money. **
 * A poem is never finished; it’s always an **
 * accident that puts a stop to it – that is to **
 * say, gives it to the public. **
 * Poems are made by fools like me… **

// T. E. Lawrence // // Benjamin Zephaniah //
 * Poets hope too much **.
 * Poetry should be alive… **
 * you should be able to dance to it. **