On Poetry Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

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.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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 is a necessity of 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.

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

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.