On Poetry Quotes

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?