Poetry Quotes
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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."
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...
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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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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 poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
