On Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

All poetry comes from repetition.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

I have been eating poetry.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?