Poetry Quotes
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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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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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
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The poetry of speech.
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
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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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We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
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Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
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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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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.
