Poetry Quotes
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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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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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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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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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 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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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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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.
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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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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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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
