Poetry Quote Generator

“ All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ”

~Gustave Flaubert

“ Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ”

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ”

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ”

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ”

~James Joyce

“ Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ”

~John Updike