Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
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Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
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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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I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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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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Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.
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I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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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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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.
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Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
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Poetry became my doctor, my lover.
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Poetry is language in orbit.
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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
