Poetry Quotes
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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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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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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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
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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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If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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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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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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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 has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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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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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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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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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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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.
