Quotes About Poetry

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The crown of literature is poetry.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I like poems that are little games.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.