On Poetry Quotes

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

The poetry is myself.

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

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.

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

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

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.