Poetry Quotes
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How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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Meditating were my thoughts On the vain poetry of the bards of Brython. Making the best of themselves in the chief convention. Enough, the care of the smith’s sledge-hammer. I am in want of a stick, straitened in song, The fold of the bards, who knows it not?
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Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.
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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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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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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
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The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying...
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And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
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I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.
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The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.
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In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.
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People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
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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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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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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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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
