Poetry Quotes
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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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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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 is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
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That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
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In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. People aren't listening to poetry as if they're taking their vitamins. Instead, it's a popular vessel you can fill with anything. You could fill it with sass. You could fill it with rage. You could fill it with political statements.
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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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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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
