Poetry Quotes
-
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
-
I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
-
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
-
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
-
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
-
In poetry, only emotion endures.
-
By the time I was 16, the everlasting copying of stuffed birds and withered flowers at the Strasbourg School of Applied Art not only poisoned drawing for me but destroyed my taste for all artistic activity. I took refuge in poetry.
-
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.
-
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
-
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
-
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
-
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
-
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
-
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
-
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
-
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
-
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
-
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
-
Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
-
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
-
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry, short stories, and letters. Trump, in his own hand, writes 140-character tweets.
-
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
-
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, 'What man does with his aloneness.'
-
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
