Poetry Quotes
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.
