The 95 best poetry phrases

Although poetry is the way in which poets create their art, it also becomes a form of expression and catharsis for those emotions that overwhelm us and we need to bring out.

Therefore, here we will review several of the best phrases about poetry; commented quotes and reflections that give a global image about this way of expressing through the artistic.

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The most memorable and inspiring phrases about poetry

Poetry paints the world in thousands of colors through subtle emotions and feelings; To understand its impact on us, read on, as there are many poetry quotes here that reflect many of its nuances and properties.

1. The more transparent the writing, the more the poetry looks. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Poetry does not need ornaments.

2. A petition is a poem and a poem is a petition.

A poem reveals our deepest feelings.

3. Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under intolerable penalties and only in the hope that good spirits, not bad, will choose us as their instrument. (Czeslaw Milosz)

A very peculiar way to get inspired to write poetry.

4. Poetry is the union of two words that one never supposed could be put together, and that form something like a mystery. (Federico García Lorca)

About the activity behind the verses.

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5. Poetry is a weapon loaded with the future. (Gabriel Celaya)

There is no person who is not inspired by a poem.

6. Poetry has to be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry. (Vicente Aleixandre)

Poetry needs to be written truthfully.

7. Art makes verses, but only the heart is a poet. (Andrea Chénier)

Poetry is elegant, but it is also crude.

8. Poetry is true with your Sunday clothes. (Joseph Roux)

A way of expressing what is happening in the world, without losing art.

9. Poetry is the echo of the melody of the universe in the hearts of humans. (Rabindranath Tagore)

It is a mystical and highly prized gem.

10. Poetry sometimes flees from books to nest outside the walls, in the street, in silence, in dreams, in the skin, in the rubble, even in the garbage. (Joaquin Sabina)

poetry can be everywhere, as long as there are those who stop to listen to it.

11. The book is strength, it is courage, it is power, it is food, a torch of thought and a source of love. (Ruben Dario)

Books give us the power of knowledge.

12. Poetry is written when she wants. (José Hierro)

Cannot force writing.

13. The poetry does not want followers, it wants lovers. (Federico García Lorca)

Only those who open their hearts can understand poetry.

14. The true poet is the one who inspires... (Paul Valery)

A poet is one who shows himself just as he is.

15. A poet is a world enclosed in a man. (Victor Hugo)

someone who is not afraid to translate his life into lyrics.

16. Poetry is nothing other than the revolt of man against reason. (Dalmiro Sáenz)

In poetry, logic does not have a fixed place.

17. Eroticism and poetry: the first is a metaphor for sexuality, the second an eroticization of language. (Octavio Paz)

romance and lyrics united in one.

18. Poets love blood! To the blood locked in the bottle of the body, not to the blood spilled by the fields. (Gloria Fuertes)

Poetry is based on the passion that burns within everyone.

19. When a poet sings, we are in his hands: he is the one who knows how to awaken those secret forces in us; his words reveal to us a wonderful world that we did not know before. (Novalis)

The power that a poet has for his readers.

20. Poetry is always the distant. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

It is a mythology that cannot be fully understood.

21. Poetry is only the evidence of life. If your life burns well, poetry will only be ashes. (Leonard Cohen)

Each poem reflects the situation of its writer.

22. History tells what happened; poetry what must have happened. (Aristotle)

The role of poetry in history.

23. History has proven the devastating capacity of poetry and I embrace it without further ado. (Pablo Neruda)

Poetry can offer a different view of the world.

24. Poetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us. (Octavio Paz)

The verses don't have to reveal everything.

25. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)

Many find their poetic inspiration in love.

26. Poetry is the feeling that is left over from your heart and comes out of your hand. (Carmen Conde)

Poetry is the voice of our soul.

27. Each poem is unique. In each work beats, to a greater or lesser degree, all the poetry. (Octavio Paz)

There is no single way to write poetry.

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28. Abstract painting, sculpture and music can be created, but a house, a love and a poem cannot be abstract. (Gloria Fuertes)

A poem must reflect the truth about anything.

29. In order not to be the martyred slaves of time, get drunk, get drunk without ceasing! with wine, poetry or virtue, in your own way. (Charles Baudelaire)

Poetry is sometimes necessary to avoid drowning in reality.

30. Poets have a hundred times better sense than philosophers. Looking for beauty they find more truth than they do. (Joseph Antoine René Joubert)

An interesting comparison.

31. The experience of the poem does not reside in each of its words, but in the interaction of those words, the music, the silences, the forms. (Paul Auster)

It is not about what is written, but about the feeling with which it is written.

32. Each reader looks for something in the poem. And it is not unusual for him to find it: he already had it inside. (Octavio Paz)

The poems come from within us.

33. Poetry was a luxury object, but for us it is a basic necessity: we cannot live without poetry. (Nicanor Parra)

Everyone appreciates poetry.

34. I know that poetry is indispensable, but I can't say why. (Jean Cocteau)

A need that we can satisfy without problems.

35. Music, when accompanied by a pleasant idea, is poetry. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Poetry comes up at any time.

36. It is typical of those with narrow minds to attack everything that does not fit in their heads. (Antonio Machado)

There are those who do not appreciate the art behind a poem.

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37. Poetry is not different, in essence, from a game of "secretly" in which the poet discovers it and denounces it, and between her and him, as in love, all that exists is the joy of this game. (José Gorostiza)

An interesting comparison.

38. The first to compare women to a flower was a poet; the second, an idiot. (Voltaire)

Original things carry more weight than copies.

39. Poetry is one of the most beautiful nicknames we give to life. (Jacques Prévert)

Look at life as if it were a poem.

40. A perfect sonnet is worth a long poem. (Nicolas Boileau)

Poetry doesn't need to be long to be perfect.

41. Let's say that there are two types of poetic minds: one capable of inventing fables and the other willing to believe them. (Galileo Galilei)

Different types of poets.

42. There may not be poets but there will always be poetry. (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)

Poetry is in the hands of everyone who is inspired to write it.

43. Pacing is what makes poetry persuasive and not informative. (José Hierro)

A careful way of saying things.

44. Poets are men who have kept their child's eyes. (Leon Daudí)

A poet needs to find beauty and magic anywhere.

45. Painting is silent poetry; blind painting poetry. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Both are great expressions of art.

46. Writing poetry is like making love: you will never know if your joy is shared. (Cesare Pavese)

Poetry is a personal process.

47. Poetry is always an act of peace. (Pablo Neruda)

There is no violence within the world of poetry.

48. Do not write under the rule of emotion. Let her die and avoid her later. (Horacio Quiroga)

A peculiar advice to plsmar our emotions.

49. Poetry is the ambition to flow, which aspires to be charged with more senses and anointed with more music than ordinary language. (Paul Valéry)

Describing the true presence of poetry.

50. Poets are soldiers who free words from the possession of constant definition. (Eli Kamarov)

The interesting role of a poet.

51. Poetry is touching the fibers of the heart and making music with them. (Dennis Gabor)

Everything in poetry is about emotions.

52. Poetry is something that goes around the street. (Federico García Lorca)

Poetry has no exact place to be found.

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53. The poet who was satisfied with the world in which he lives would not be a poet. (Giovanni Papini)

The verses are a form of relief.

54. Poetry is the genre of ultimate and irreversible sincerity. (Mario Benedetti)

It is a way of telling the truth without feeling intimidated.

55. Doing bad verses brings more happiness than reading the most beautiful verses. (Hermann Hesse)

There are no bad verses in poetry.

56. No one has destroyed himself to make a poem. Nobody. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Doing poetry does not lead you to destroy yourself.

57. Prose: words in the most suitable order; poetry: the most suitable words in the most suitable order. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Poetry as a great transformer.

58. Poetry must deal with everything, like prose, so as not to be anemic. (Ernesto Cardenal)

It should never be fixed, but dynamic.

59. Our poems will have failed if our readers are not carried beyond the poems. (Muriel Rukeyser)

There is always a lesson to learn.

60. The year that is abundant with poetry, it is usually hungry. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Many great works arise from dire moments.

61. Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. (Juan Ramón Jiménez)

Poetry is not tied to anything.

62. Each poem is unique. (Octavio Paz)

Because each poet is unique.

63. Poetry is communication, something that is used to talk with other men. (Vicente Aleixandre)

A language that breaks down barriers.

64. Don't stop believing that words and poetry can change the world. (Walt Whitman)

Any form of art can bring people together.

65. There is something in poetry that goes beyond the logic of prose, there is a mystery in it that should not be explained but admired. (Edward Young)

It is not about understanding poetry, but about enjoying it.

66. In each work beats, to a greater or lesser degree, all the poetry. (Octavio Paz)

Poetry can be present in other works of art.

67. The dream is an involuntary art of poetry. (Immanuel Kant)

That is why you never have to stop dreaming.

68. Poetry is the painting that moves and the music that thinks. (Émile Deschamps)

The poetry used to accompany the painting.

69. You have to know that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets. (Voltaire)

Every person in love has created poems for his lover.

70. Poems don't always have to rhyme, they have to be creative. (Jared Gilman)

The poems do not need to follow a rigid meter, but a passion.

71. A sigh is a prisoner who escapes from the prison of the soul. A sigh is the air that brushes the words. It is summary, it is postscript. A sigh is a drowned poetry. (Alejandro Sanz)

Poetry as a reflection of melancholy.

72. The world is never the same again when we add a good poem to it. (Dylan Thomas)

Poetry is made to change us.

73. It has been said that the poet is the great therapist. (Alejandra Pizarnik)

Many of us can identify with different poems.

74. Poetry does not have time, whoever reads it rescues it, makes it present and then returns it to its eternity. (Domenico Cieri Estrada)

Poetry is eternal.

75. I still think that poetry is something else: a form of love that only exists in silence, in a secret pact between two people, two strangers almost always. (José Emilio Pacheco)

A very personal way of looking at poetry.

76. Big or small, every man is a poet if he knows how to see the ideal, beyond his actions. (Henrik Ibsen)

Anyone can make poetry with his acts.

77. Poetry must be the obedient daughter of music. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Poetry as an inspiration for music.

78. The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Wallace Stevens)

The poet who reveals what many carry inside.

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79. Poets are the unrecognized legislators of the world. (Percy Byshe Shelley)

An interesting way of seeing poets.

80. There is more truth in poetry than in history. (Aristotle)

A fact to keep in mind.

81. The gods facilitate the first verse; the rest are made by the poet. (Paul Valéry)

Inspiration gives the idea, but the rest is in the hands of the poet.

82. Before poetry, it is both trembling and understanding. (Baldomero Fernández Moreno)

Poetry causes us various sensations.

83. The poetic task would imply exorcising, conjuring and, in addition, repairing. (Alejandra Pizarnik)

What arises after the writing of poetry.

84. It is impossible to make a good film without a camera that is like an eye in the heart of a poet. (Orson Welles)

Poetry within other functions.

85. Writing a poem is to repair the fundamental wound, the tear. Because we are all hurt. (Alejandra Pizarnik)

A way to alleviate our sorrows.

86. Being a poet is not my ambition, it is my way of being alone. (Fernando Pessoa)

Poetry as a personal escape.

87. The meaning of a poem is to be speechless, to find the conclusion that assimilates productivity and affirmation into an inexpressible whole. (Archie Randolph Ammons)

One of the goals of the poems.

88. Mine is not a spontaneous poetry, which bubbles and comes out of inspiration. (Hanni Ossott)

Many poets are inspired by something or someone to write.

89. Many go towards the truth on the roads of poetry. I come to poetry, by the ways of truth. (Joseph Joubert)

Poetry always speaks of the truth.

90. Deep down, a poem is not something that is seen, but the light that allows us to see. And what we see is life. (Federico Mayor Zaragoza)

The mystery of the poems.

91. Poetry is born from the pain. Joy is an end in itself. (Jorge Luis Borges)

Much poetry comes from sadness.

92. Poetry does not exist, except because it finds its eternal reality in the most beautiful instincts of the human heart. (Franz Liszt)

It is the greatest expression of vulnerability and humanity.

93. Poetry is the essential word in time. (Antonio Machado)

Poetry as an immortal element.

94. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost)

We can always feel identified with a poem.

95. It would seem that the poetic image, in its novelty, opens a future of language. (Gastón Bachelard)

Poetry as another form of expression.