On Poetry Quotes

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

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.

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.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

You just go on your nerve.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!