Poetry Quote Archive

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. — Sigmund Freud

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. — Paul Valery

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. — William Butler Yeats

Poetry is like kissing. You just can’t have too much of it. — Bill Purdin

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. — M. C. Richards