Poetry Quotes
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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
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My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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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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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
