Poetry Quotes
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.
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My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
