Poetry Quotes

"Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry." "Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said." "I am nobody who are you" "Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye" "To see the summer sky is poetry though never in a book it lie" "Dying is an art, like everything else " "I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro" "My life closed twice before its close" "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches" "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed" "I have unrolled my years like a green field" "My heart seizes to notice the blue of the sky" "Where philosophy is a matter of words and of ideas, poetry is a matter of sounds and of experiences"