Poetry Quotes

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Alan Watts Quote - There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said. Free

Alan Watts

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quote - Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. Free

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Maya Angelou Quote - Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Free

Maya Angelou

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Ada Lovelace Quote - If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? Free

Ada Lovelace

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

Rabindranath Tagore Quote - Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. Free

Rabindranath Tagore

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Amanda Gorman Quote - Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges. Free

Amanda Gorman

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.

Amanda Gorman Quote - When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths. Free

Amanda Gorman

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

Amanda Gorman Quote - I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career. Free

Amanda Gorman

I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

Amy Winehouse Quote - I’ve always written poetry but I didn’t realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That’s when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace. Free

Amy Winehouse

I’ve always written poetry but I didn’t realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That’s when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Amanda Gorman Quote - Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people. Free

Amanda Gorman

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

Amanda Gorman Quote - Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. Free

Amanda Gorman

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

Amanda Gorman Quote - Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet. Free

Amanda Gorman

Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

Alexander Pope Quote - For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d. Free

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.

Amy Winehouse Quote - I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular. Free

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

Amanda Gorman Quote - That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone. Free

Amanda Gorman

That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.

Amanda Gorman Quote - The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition. Free

Amanda Gorman

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

Amanda Gorman Quote - Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. Free

Amanda Gorman

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

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