Poetry Quotes
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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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Let yourself becoming living 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.
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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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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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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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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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
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Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
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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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If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
