Poetry Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
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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.
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Who, except the poets, reads poetry?
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We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
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Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
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We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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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.
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
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Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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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.
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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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.
