Poetry Quotes
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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
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To paraphrase Robin Williams’s compelling teacher character in Dead Poets Society: We don’t study poetry to get an “A,” to graduate, to get a job, to make money, to meet material needs. Rather, “we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering . . . these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love . . . these are what we stay alive for.
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That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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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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I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'
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But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd.
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In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
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I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
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I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.
