Poetry Quote Generator

“ In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. ”

~Wallace Stevens

“ If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ”

~Wallace Stevens

“ When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ”

~Mario Batali

“ For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ”

~Eugenio Montale

“ Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ”

~Thomas B. Macaulay

“ I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ”

~Rick Springfield