Poetry Quote Generator

“ As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”

~T. S. Eliot

“ The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. ”

~Victor Hugo

“ Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ”

~Victor Hugo

“ If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. ”

~Emily Dickinson

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

~William Wordsworth

“ Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ”

~William Blake