Poetry Quotes

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

  

  Faiz Ahmad Faiz
  • True
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • People
  • Wish
  • Mistake

• American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • American
  • Poetry

• Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Wishes

• Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Canary
  • Mine-shaft

• 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.

  

  Valerie Worth
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Alex Garland
  • History
  • Future
  • Science

• Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Work
  • School
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Real
  • Poetry

• None of these worlds was incompatible. All of these people were around, and if you were at all interested in painting, poetry, or dance, you met them.

  

  James Tenney
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Worlds

• My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Poetry

• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Moments
  • Poetry

• I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

  

  Amanda Plummer
  • People
  • World
  • School

• I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Good
  • Poetry
  • Discipline

• Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Heart
  • Poetry

• An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Love
  • Wife

• The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Gay

• I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Poetry

• Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Poetry
  • Eloquence
  • Verses

• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Free
  • Trouble
  • Individual

• In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Poetry
  • Poet

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