Best Poetry Quotes

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Do not go gentle into that good night.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.