Poetry Quotes
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Whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.
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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
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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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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
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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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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
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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 of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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In science, one tries to say what no one else has ever said before. In poetry, one tries to say what everyone else has already said, but better. This explains, in essence, why good poetry is as rare as good science.
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
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I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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Poetry is fired by love.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
