Poetry Quotes

• Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.

  

  Aja Monet
  • Freedom
  • Change
  • Poetry

• All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Words
  • Poetry

• One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

  

  Ally Condie
  • Time
  • Good
  • English

• With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

  

  Paul Heyse
  • Poetry
  • Gymnasium
  • Philology

• I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Poetry
  • Childhood
  • Six

• 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.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Dad

• I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Mary Szybist
  • Good
  • Art
  • Imagination

• The question, 'How well does one read?' is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is 'How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?' No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.

  

  Neil Postman
  • History
  • Bad
  • Science

• somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • Tree
  • Green

• Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Simple
  • Taken
  • Poetry

• For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Art
  • Experience
  • History

• Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Mind
  • City
  • Poetry

• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Poetry

• One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

  

  Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Write
  • Subliminal
  • Apolitical

• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Poetry

• There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Society
  • Circumstances
  • Birth

• My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

  

  James Broughton
  • Poetry

• I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

  

  Anne Hebert
  • Believe
  • Poetry
  • Solitude

• 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.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Environment
  • Poetry
  • Explore

• If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Gates
  • Self-controlled

• I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Want

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