Poetry Quotes
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They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
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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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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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The poetry of speech.
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...
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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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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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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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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
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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.
