On Poetry Quotes

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!

The night is still waiting.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

...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.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

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.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

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.

When following God, Zero we never find.

God is busy and has no time for you.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

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.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

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.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

A language is a map of our failures

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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 have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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.

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.

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

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.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.