Poetry Quotes
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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.
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I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
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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.
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
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Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
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Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
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Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
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I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
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American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
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Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.
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In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.
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I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
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It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
