Poetry Quotes
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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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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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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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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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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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The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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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 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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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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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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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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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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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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
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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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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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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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I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
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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.
