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45 Quotes about Poetry for National Poetry Day
Witty and inspiring quotations about poetry in honour of National Poetry Day
As it’s National Poetry Day here in the UK (held in early October every year, usually on the first or second Thursday in the month), we’ve gathered together some of our favourite quotations (or quotes, depending on your preference) about poetry and poets, from the poetry of the everyday to the big philosophical questions which poetry presents us with. Where we’ve included a link on the author’s name, you’ll find more information about them – interesting facts, more quotations, or biographical material. We hope you enjoy the quotations.
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe
There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away, / Nor any Coursers like a Page / Of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T. S. Eliot
If you tell a novelist, ‘Life’s not like that’, he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, ‘No, but I am.’ – Philip Larkin Read the rest of this entry
10 Great Quotes about Poetry for National Poetry Day
For National Poetry Day 2014, here are our ten favourite quotes from writers, artists, and thinkers about poetry.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. – Salvador Dali
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost
It is a part of the poet’s work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. – Edith Sitwell
To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet. – Thomas Hardy
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning 5 or 6 times. – Randall Jarrell
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can’t. – Sylvia Plath [PS: T. S. Eliot disagreed, and had already done so: see his ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night‘]
The prose writer drags meaning along with the rope. The poet makes it stand on end and hit you. – T. E. Hulme
Image: The ‘Annie’ Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, author unknown, public domain.
