Poetry Quotes
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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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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
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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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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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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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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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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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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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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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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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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
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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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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
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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.
