Poetry Quotes
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My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
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Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.
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I believe that poetry should communicate.
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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
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They snatched that from me which I still held. They vied with each other in reading poetry to me in sheltered corners. They hung on my words, and laughed appreciatively every time I opened my mouth—sometimes even before I had opened it, which is conduct that easily dries up the springs of conversation. Such young men do exist, and it is a pity, because they are so bad for the older women, who give heed to their flutings at their own peril. I daresay they would have been bad for me too if I had taken them seriously, but I wasn’t quite old enough to do that, and my sole reaction to their devotion was that I was irked.
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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.
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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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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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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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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
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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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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.
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My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores.
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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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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
