World Poetry Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about World Poetry

World Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational World Poetry quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. — Richard Peck

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm — L.J. Buchanan

She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her. — Sylvain Reynard

There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes. — Atticus Poetry

And if the world has forgotten you,
say this to the stable earth: I run.
Tell the rushing water: I exist. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

The world was fair, the mountains tall
In Elder Days before the fall ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. — Donald Bradman

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. — Terry A. O'Neal

Do not eat of this world,
she warned as I left,
unless you are willing to suffer. — Justen Ahren

There is another world, and it is in this one. — Paul Eluard

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner

We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me. — May Sarton

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud

No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world. — Alfred Tennyson

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open. — Leza Lowitz

He world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way as poetry does. — L.M. Montgomery

Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world? — Rae Armantrout

The rain pelts the world on pause — Tanja Kobasic

In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. — Suheir Hammad

Be you.
That, my friend,
is the change you want
to become in the world. — Frederick Espiritu

I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand

The world is God's salvation. — Dejan Stojanovic

May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone. — E. E. Cummings

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too. — Daniel Tammet

Monsieur, you must be mad!
Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it. — Peter Davis

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance. — Lian Hearn

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ... — William Jones

The unresolved heart worked against him in life, but it connected him to the world of poetry, where he allowed (in)complete strangers under his skin. — Morrissey

We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other. — Heather K. O'Hara

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. — Carol Ann Duffy

...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

From the poem 'The Unseen World — Munia Khan

You are a memory
too strong to leave this world ... — William Stafford

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There is still peace left in the world,
and only those with beauty in their soul,
care enough to be it. — Jenim Dibie

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. — George MacDonald

The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled — Muhammad Iqbal

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again. — Sylvia Plath

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. — Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. — Atticus Poetry

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. — D.A. Botta

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world. — Gerhart Hauptmann

We inhale life and exhale words. that's just what writers' do
— Terry A. O'Neal

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy

World of harmony and peace
I see it just over there
Right there. — Ilchi Lee

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

Dark is the world's night without you my love, — Pablo Neruda

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world. — Sanober Khan

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. — Rupert Brooke

World is suddener than we fancy it. — Louis MacNeice

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. — Colson Whitehead

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough — Rainer Maria Rilke

The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems — John Berryman

You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world. — Stephanie Hemphill

She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz. — Atticus Poetry

What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic

She left my world spinning
like windmills
on the plains of la Mancha. — Stephen Brooke

If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives. — Laura Moe

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble! — Preeth Nambiar

Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine. — Sara Teasdale

The most procession that ever comes to a man in this world is a women's heart. — Josiah G Holland AKA Timothy Titcomb

Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities. — Luis Vaz De Camoes

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. — Shahin Najafi

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — L.M. Elliott

If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) — Kurt Cobain

No one can usurp the heights ...
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest. — John Keats

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry. — Marty Rubin

Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it. — Sean Glatch

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is poetry of sailing as old as the world, — E.L. James

When I shut my eyes on this world I'll finally have peace. — Kevin Walker

You bend the nail
But keep hammering because
Hammering makes the world — Dean Young

Today I want to leave the world
I want to leave the pain
Leave the heartache
I know where it is going
I want to see my Savior — April Nichole

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. — Wallace Stevens

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe. — Archibald MacLeish

What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass? — Janet McAdams

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. — John Betjeman

On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage. — Aberjhani