On Poetry Quotes

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.