Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
19+ Best Poetry Quotes & Wishes
Poetry quotes celebrate language that sings, grieves, praises and reveals for readers who love verse, poets and lines that linger after reading. Copy a favourite line or download it as a free image card to share with someone today.
Updated: October 2026
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself.
Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.