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.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Poetry is devil's wine.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Poetry is the memory of language

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.