Top 9 Great Poetry Quotes

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Helen Keller

Heart, Needs, Great Poetry

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Witold Gombrowicz

Admire, Great Poetry

Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.43, Yale University Press

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Erica Jong

Voice, After Death, Great Poetry

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Aristotle

Nature, Great Poetry, Poetry Is

"Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation".

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Rupert Everett

Fans, Great Poetry, Great Poet

"Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.