Poetry Quotes
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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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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.
Richie Havens
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I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Melanie Lynskey
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.
William Wordsworth
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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.'
Albert Camus
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
Simone de Beauvoir
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You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.
Eliza Griswold
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My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
John Darnielle
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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.
Ben Lerner
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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
James Fenton
