Poetry Quotes
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In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
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The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression.
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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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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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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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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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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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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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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.
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You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."
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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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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
