Poetry Quotes
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The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
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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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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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By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.
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For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
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Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.
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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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Film has its own innate poetry.
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I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
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In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Poetry’s not made of words.
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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
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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 poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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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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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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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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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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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
