On Poetry Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

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.

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

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

For a poet, style is the only morality.

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.

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.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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.

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

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.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.