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On Poetry Quotes: "Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum."

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it."

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.




On Poetry Quotes: "Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head."

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry is a presentiment of the truth."

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.




On Poetry Quotes: "This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe."

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.




On Poetry Quotes: "I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat."

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.



On Poetry Quotes: "The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it."

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.



On Poetry Quotes: "My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water."

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.



On Poetry Quotes: "one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"

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



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry."

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




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

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



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

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



On Poetry Quotes: "A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line."

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



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

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



On Poetry Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music."

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



On Poetry Quotes: "Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."

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



On Poetry Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



On Poetry Quotes: "If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?"

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



On Poetry Quotes: "A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry."

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.



On Poetry Quotes: "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.'"

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.'



On Poetry Quotes: "Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway."

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.



On Poetry Quotes: "Poetry is not a luxury."

Poetry is not a luxury.



On Poetry Quotes: "If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices."

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.



On Poetry Quotes: "Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout."

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.



On Poetry Quotes: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.



On Poetry Quotes: "The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion."

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.



On Poetry Quotes: "Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue."

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.



On Poetry Quotes: "To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry."

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



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

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



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

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



On Poetry Quotes: "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."

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.



On Poetry Quotes: "You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry."

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.



On Poetry Quotes: "The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets."

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.



On Poetry Quotes: "Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable."

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.



On Poetry Quotes: "I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar."

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.



On Poetry Quotes: "I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together."

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.



On Poetry Quotes: "I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy."

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.



On Poetry Quotes: "If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.



On Poetry Quotes: "I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way."

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.



On Poetry Quotes: "Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit."

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.



On Poetry Quotes: "Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry."

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.



On Poetry Quotes: "I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still."

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.



On Poetry Quotes: "I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image."

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.



On Poetry Quotes: "The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead."

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.