Poetry Is Quotes

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.