Poetry Is Quotes

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.