Quotes About Poetry

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why today's songs don't have a shelf life is because of inane lyrics.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

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

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.