Quotes About Meaning

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.