On Poetry Quotes

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.