Quotes About Poetry

I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.