Quotes About Poetry

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.