Quotes About Meaning

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

History is the new poetry.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

History after all is the true poetry.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

Language is fossil poetry

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ? ?