Poetry Quotes
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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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I am interested in beauty. I think with beauty comes poetry, comes the lyrical. I think beauty is concerned with justice…
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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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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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Writing poetry consists in letting the Word be heard behind words.
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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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There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.
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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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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.
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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
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Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
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Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.
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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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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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Is not poetry the food of love?
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.
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I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
