Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
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In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
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There is much poetry for which most of us do not care, but with a little trouble when we are young we may find one or two poets whose poetry, if we get to know it well, will mean very much to us and become part of ourselves... The love for such poetry which comes to us when we are young will not disappear as we get older; it will remain in us, becoming an intimate part of our own being, and will be an assured source of strength, consolation, and delight.
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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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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Poetry cannot take sides except with life.
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I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet's mistress.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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Ask not if poetry is dead, ask how you can live for poetry.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.
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Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
