Poetry Quotes

• In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

  

  Paul Heyse
  • Poetry
  • Dissertation
  • Philology

• Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Poetry

• The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • School
  • Art
  • Reading

• The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

  

  Sean O'Faolain
  • Poetry
  • Story
  • Punch

• They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Poetry

• The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Writing
  • Coffee

• In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

  

  John Barton
  • Past
  • Poetry

• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Pretty
  • Poetry

• Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Truth
  • Poetry
  • Presentiment

• Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

  

  James Fenton
  • History
  • Poetry

• Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Poetry

• 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

• Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Poetry
  • Lives
  • Going On

• There is but one poetry-true poetry.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry
  • True Poetry

• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Boring

• Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

  

  Rumi
  • Experience
  • Give
  • Illusion

• Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

  

  John Denham
  • Poetry

• I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Way

• One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Poetry

• Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Enjoy
  • Philosophy
  • Forget

• 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

• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Wine
  • Format
  • Workshops

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