Poetry Quotes
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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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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
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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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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
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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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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
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Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.
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Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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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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Film has its own innate poetry.
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If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
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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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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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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.
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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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As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
