amazing quotations on poetry

always be a poet, even in prose.  ~Charles Baudelaire

poetry is a song without music

A poem begins with a lump in the throat.  ~Robert Frost

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.  ~Novalis

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.  ~J. Patrick Lewis,

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.  ~William Blissett

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.  ~James Tate

Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry.
~Muriel Rukeyser

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.  ~Robert Frost

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.  ~Jean Cocteau

Poetry is frosted fire.  ~J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.  ~Rita Dove

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”
 John Wain

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
 Thomas Gray

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
  Robert Frost