Poetry Quotes
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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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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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
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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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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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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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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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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.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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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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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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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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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 so vital to us until school spoils it.
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History is the new poetry.
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I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
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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.
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Poetry is prose in slow motion.
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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.
