Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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Who, except the poets, reads poetry?
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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.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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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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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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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.
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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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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.
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Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
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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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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.
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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
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With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
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I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
