Poetry Quotes

• I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Write
  • Paradise
  • Hawaii

• To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Sky

• 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.

  

  Paul Muldoon
  • Poetry
  • Discomfort
  • Provoke

• Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Death
  • Black
  • Poet

• What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

  

  David Eugene Smith
  • Heart
  • Poetry
  • Mathematics

• 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."

  

  David Eugene Smith
  • God
  • Truth
  • Science

• Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Sculpture

• My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Together
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Reading
  • Congress
  • Librarian

• I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Poetry
  • Darkness
  • Rhyme

• 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.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Control
  • Dangerous
  • Clarity

• Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Poet
  • Joyful

• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Spiritual
  • Special
  • Expression

• Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Poetry
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Work
  • Poetry
  • Myth

• Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Read

• 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.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• The poetry of speech.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Poetry
  • Speech

• My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Poetry
  • Project

• 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.

  

  Dana Scott
  • Language
  • Translate
  • When

• 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
  • World
  • Job
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • House
  • Persons
  • Poet

• This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Energy
  • Dance
  • Word

• In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Survived

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