On Poetry Quotes

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

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.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Poetry is an act of peace.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.