Poetry Quote Generator

“ In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. ”

~Paul Valery

“ Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ”

~Jorge Luis Borges

“ I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ”

~Robert Morgan

“ Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. ”

~Muhammad Iqbal

“ Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. ”

~Federico Fellini

“ Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”

~George William Curtis