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 is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
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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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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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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 am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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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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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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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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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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.
