Indie Scribe Magazine January 2014 | Page 47

Poetry Quotes

'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'

Oscar Wilde

'Poetry: the best words in the best order.'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.'

Georges Braque

'Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.'

Robert Frost '

'The poet doesn't invent. He listens.'

Jean Cocteau

'Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.'

Carl Sandburg