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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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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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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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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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Poetry’s not made of words.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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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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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
