Poetry Quotes
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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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.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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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 real thing creates its own poetry.
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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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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
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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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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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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 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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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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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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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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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
