Poetry Quotes
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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.
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I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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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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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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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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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
