Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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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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Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
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Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting
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Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
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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.
