Poetry Quotes
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I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
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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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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Writing poetry consists in letting the Word be heard behind words.
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If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
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Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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Poetry is the only hope.Even if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
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I believe that poetry should communicate.
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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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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
