Poetry Quotes
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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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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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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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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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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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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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 its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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 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 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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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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.
