Poetry Quotes
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With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
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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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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 a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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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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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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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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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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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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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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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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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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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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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.
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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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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
