Poetry Quotes
-
History is the new poetry.
-
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
-
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
-
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
-
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.
-
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.
-
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
-
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
-
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
-
I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
-
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
-
How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.
-
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.
-
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
-
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
-
The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
-
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.
-
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
-
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
-
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
-
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
-
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
-
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
-
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
