Poetry Quotes
-
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
-
People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
-
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
-
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
-
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.
-
I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.
-
Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.
-
Poetry is the dark side of the moon.
-
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
-
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.
-
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.
-
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.
-
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
-
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
-
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
-
Who, except the poets, reads poetry?
-
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
-
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
-
Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
-
Technical display in Chopin, after the early works, is transmuted into tone color or dramatic gesture-we may say, to accept the prejudices of Chopin's own generation, that it has been ennobled. This is the source of much of the poetry in Chopin's music: it comes from the transformation of the vulgar into something aristocratic.
-
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
-
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
-
When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn’t read poetry much anyway.
-
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
