Poetry Quotes
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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But I may say Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877.
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People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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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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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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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 cannot take sides except with life.
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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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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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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
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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.
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Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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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, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
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Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
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Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.
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Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
