Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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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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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan 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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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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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Etel Adnan -
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
