On Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

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.

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

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.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

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

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.

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

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

The cliche is dead poetry.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.