On Poetry Quotes

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.