Poetry Quotes
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My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
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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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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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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.
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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
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I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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But I may say Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.
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I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
