On Poetry Quotes

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Woman is the light of God.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Failure: the renewable resource.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.