On Poetry Quotes
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
