Poetry Quotes
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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 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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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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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.
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
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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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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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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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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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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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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.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
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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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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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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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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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History is the new poetry.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
