Poetry Quotes
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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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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.
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As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
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I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
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Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
