On Poetry Quotes

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

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

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

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.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

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

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.

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

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

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 poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

The finest poetry was first experience.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Our best history is still poetry.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.