Poetry Quotes
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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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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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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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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More modern poetry is written than read.
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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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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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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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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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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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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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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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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
