Poetry Quotes
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?
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Poetry is the eloquence of verse.
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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
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The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.
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The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
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The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
