On Poetry Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!