Poetry Quotes
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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'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
