Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
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You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality.
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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
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[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it...
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
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The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
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I often say poetry was my first love.
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He named it after Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, of poetry and of healing.
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
