On Poetry Quotes

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

There are poets and there are grownups.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.