On Poetry Quotes

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

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.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Poetry can magnify experience.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Every old poem is sacred.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated