On Poetry Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.