22 Best Poetry Quotes For Deep Feelings

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Are you looking for some poetry quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below inspiring quotes about poetry for deep feelings.

Best Poetry Quotes

1. “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.” ― W.H. Auden

2. “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” ― Charles Bukowski

3. “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

4. “Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.” ― W.S. Merwin

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5. “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” ― Robert Frost

6. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” ― Kahlil Gibran

7. “I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” ― Novalis

9. “Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” ― Greg Bear

10. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

11. “My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.” ― Osip Mandelstam

12. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas

13. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Pablo Neruda

14. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” ― Victor Hugo

15. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato

16. “If you’re reading this… Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.” ― Chad Sugg

17. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” ― Sylvia Plath

18. “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” ― Robert Frost

19. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not to man the less, but Nature more” ― Lord Byron

20. “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” ― T.S. Eliot

21. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” ― Kahlil Gibran

22. “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

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