Poetry Quotes
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak
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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.
Erica Jong
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When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
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We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
A. L. Rowse
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I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
Derek Walcott
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
Robert Frost
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If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
W. H. Auden
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Mark Strand
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I am a daughter of that land,Where the poet’s lip and the painter’s handAre most divine, -where the earth and sky,Are picture both and poetry-I am of Florence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
Galway Kinnell
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Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
Edward Hirsch
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
T. S. Eliot
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I read poetry to save time.
Marilyn Monroe
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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.
Beaumont Newhall
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There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.
Edward Hirsch
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Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
Anne Hebert
