Poetry Quotes
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
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Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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I always loved writing, be it creative writing for school or just poetry. I just loved writing, and in college, I started really trying to write songs and was copying other artists, just to figure it out - but I think freshman year of high school is when I realized, 'I want to be a writer. I have something to say.'
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
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I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.
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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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Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged,
