Poetry Quotes
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
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My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
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The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
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happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
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Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
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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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Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
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I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
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American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
