Poetry Quotes
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
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I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.
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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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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
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Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
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I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with the European continent, and that she is best connected through her spiritual complement across the Straits of Dover.
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Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Where I come from, we sing poetry.
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Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
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We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
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From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
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Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
