Poetry Quotes
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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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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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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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 you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
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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 -
In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
