The Inked Dove

Poetry

Poetry is an echo,asking the shadow to dance.
-Carl Sandburg

We make a quarrel with others,rhetoric,
But of the quarrel with ourselves,poetry.
-W.B. Yeats

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
It takes origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
-William Wordsworth

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
Though he has never written a line all his life.
-George Sand

It is written on the arched sky;
It looks out from every star.
It is the poetry of nature,
It is that which uplifts the spirits within us.
-John Ruskin

In science,one tries to tell people,
In such a way as to be understood by everyone,
Something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry,it's the exact opposite.
-Paul Dirac

I grew up in this town,
My poetry was born between the hill and the river,
It took its voice from the rain,
And like the timber,
It seeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda

Poetry should be great,and unobtrusive,
A thing which enters into one's soul,
And does not startle it or amaze it with itself,
But with its subject.
-John Keats

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land,
Wanting to fly in the air.
-Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The words never quite equal,
The experience behind them.
-Charles Simic

Genuine Poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T.S.Elliot

A/N Just thought I'd share some amazing quotes and thoughts on poetry for all the poetry lovers out there!