On Poetry Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

The true poem rests between the words.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.