On Poetry Quotes

Is not poetry the food of love?

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

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

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.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

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

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

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.

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

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

I love to write poetry.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.

To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.

some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI