Poetry Quotes
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
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There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
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Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
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'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
