On Poetry Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

There were poets before Homer.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

The freedom of poetic license.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.