Poetry Is Quotes

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

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

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.

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

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

Poetry is an act of peace.

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

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.