Quotes About Poetry for Random Acts of Poetry Day
Who doesn’t want to drop verse everywhere they go?
If you’ve ever felt the urge to show off your knowledge of verse, today would be the perfect day to do it. That’s because the first Wednesday of October is Random Acts of Poetry Day, when people are encouraged to leave a poem somewhere — whether it be scribbled on paper and left on a park bench or etched in chalk on the sidewalk. These quotes are about poetry to inspire some random acts.
1. “A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
-Salman Rushdie
2. “Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”
-Robert Frost
3. “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
-Gustave Flaubert
4. “An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”
-Raymond Chandler
5. “Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
