Poetry By Famous Poets Quotes

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date . . .

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

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

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.