Poetry Quotes
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.
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It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.
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Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
