Poetry Is Quotes

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

poetry is where the language is renewed.