1. "For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history."
-- Aristotle

2. "Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
-- W. H. Auden

3. "Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
-- William C. Bryant

4. "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
-- Emily Dickinson

5. "How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery."
-- Elizabeth Drew

6. "She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
-- Bob Dylan

7. "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences."
-- T S Eliot

8. "Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. "Only poetry inspires poetry."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-- Robert Frost

11. "The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
-- Horace

12. "Good religious poetry . . . is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout."
-- A. E. Housman

13. "I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer."
-- Langston Hughes

14. "I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
-- Erica Jong

15. "As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry."
-- June Jordan

16. "Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
-- James Joyce

17. "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
-- John Keats

18. "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words."
-- Archibald MacLeish

19. "I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
-- Marianne Moore

20. "I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
-- Howard Nemerov

21. "And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad/ It is not poetry, but prose run mad."
-- Alexander Pope

22. "I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself."
-- Carl Sandburg

23. "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

24. "Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
-- Stephen Spender

25. "I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this."
-- George Steiner

26. "Everything is complicated; if that we not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
-- Wallace Stevens

27. "Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
-- Henry David Thoreau

28. "How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."
-- Robert Penn Warren

29. "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
-- William Wordsworth

30. "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote."
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

31. "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
-- Bill Wilson

32. "Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely."
-- Basta

33. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-- Lao Tzu

34. "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-- David Grayson

35. "I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you."
-- Colin Raye

36. "Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything."
-- Goldie Nash

37. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-- Franklin P. Jones

38. "Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it; those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it."
-- Curtis Judalet

39. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
-- Aristotle

40. "Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."
-- Josh Billings

41. "Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite into it until it's ripe."
-- Nick Hertl

42. "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
-- Leo Buscaglia

43. "A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old."
-- Source Unknown

44. "Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind."
-- William Shakespeare

45. "Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough."
-- G. Moore

46. "I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough."
-- Regina 'Age 10'

47. "I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
-- Woody Allen

48. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-- Ingrid Bergman

49. "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
-- Barbara Bush

50. "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein

51. "We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-- Marie E. Eschenbach

52. "Women are made to be loved, not understood."
-- Oscar Wilde

53. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-- Plato

54. "Love is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
-- Jules Renord