On Poetry Quotes

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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.