On Poetry Quotes

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

You are never too old to become younger!

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

Love is the poetry of the senses.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.