Poetry Quotes

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.

Andre Naffis-Sahely
Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

William Hughes Mearns
- Poetry
- Yourself

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.

Amy Sillman
- Works
- Confident
- Troubled
Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound
- Poetry
- Written
- Prose
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Harry Mathews
- Poetry
- Project
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

Stephen Spender
- Memories
- Forget
- Genius
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage
- Poetry
- Feel
- Read
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.

Plato
- Soul
- Poetry
- Madness