Poetry Quotes
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I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
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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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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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Poetry is a quality of the artistic expression independent of form.
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I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
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Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
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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.
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All that remains to poets is honest poetry.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
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Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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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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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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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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Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
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Why then we should drop into poetry.
