On Poetry Quotes

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.