Poetry Quotes
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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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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In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.
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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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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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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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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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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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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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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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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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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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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.
