On Poetry Quotes

We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

The poetry of country music will survive.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Poetry is the memory of language

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.