Poetry Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
