On Poetry Quotes

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

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.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

All things want to float.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.