On Poetry Quotes

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

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

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.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

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

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

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

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.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

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

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.