On Poetry Quotes

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

All I know is a door into the dark

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

There is such a shelter in each other.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.