Poetry Quotes
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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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.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
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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 art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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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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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’s not made of words.
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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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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
