Poetry Is Quotes

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

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 God's work.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

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

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.