Poetry Quote Generator

“ Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. ”

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ”

~Carl Sandburg

“ We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ”

~Carl Sandburg

“ When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ”

~Carl Sandburg

“ Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ”

~Carl Sandburg

“ Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ”

~Virginia Woolf