On Poetry Quotes

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.