On Poetry Quotes

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

A word is elegy to what it signifies.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.