Deep Poetry Quotes

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: but when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep sorrows in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

A picture is a poem without words.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day.

April is the cruellest month.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

I dwell in Possibility — a fairer house than Prose.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.