Poetry Quotes
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
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I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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“To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia…in public…You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself…You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed”
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
