Poetry Quotes
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I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Life is a b movie.It's stupid and it's strange,A directionless story,And the dialogue is lame.But in the he said, she said,Sometimes there's some poetry,If you turn your back long enough,And let it happen naturally.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.
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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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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
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So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
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I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
