Poetry Quotes
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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.
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Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
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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.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
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You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
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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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But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.
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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
