On Poetry Quotes

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

There can be no forced inspiration.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.