Quotes About Poetry

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street. 'AS I WALKED OUT ONE EVENING', W. H. AUDEN

I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem.

If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.

Creo en la poesía, en el amor y en la muerte, por eso precisamente creo en la inmortalidad.

When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes.

Poetry became his favorite genre; he memorized poetic lyrics and recited them often. For him, poetry organized and crystalized experience as no other type of language did.

He would once say that he wanted Leaves of Grass to be published as a pocket book, to be carried around everywhere: "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air.

Melancholy Shakespearean passages provided him with relief. They offered structured, resonant versions of gloom. They organized sad topics and made them meaningful. Reciting dark writings aloud let him project his depression outward so that it was filtered through the improving lens of poetry. The rhythms and images of verse crystallized his private experience in a manner similar to the way his finest speeches crystallized and uplifted the national experience.

In his wonderful 1529 book on the alphabet, 'Champ Fleury,' (French Renaissance scholar and type designer Geofroy) Tory deals gently but firmly with H: "The aspirate is not a letter; nonetheless it is by poetic licence given place as a letter.

think it's a poetry that comes out of the stuff of the poet's personal life, but he's trying to render this experience in more general and inclusive, or what used to be called universal

Flip had written many volumes of poetry:

Auntie Flip had written many volumes of poetry:

Poetry: Language against which we have no defences.

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.

Our poems are what the gods couldn't make without going through us.

What tame, memory-dependent work I was doing. How polite my poems were, how still they sat, how representational. We poets talked about craft, but what we meant were tricks and illusions.

Maybe poems are made of breath, the way water, cajoled to boil, says, This is my soul, freed. — Dean Young, from "Scarecrow on Fire

He returned the smile and extended his arm. I slipped mine through his and we walked on in the warm sunshine, the smell of jasmine faint on the air as somewhere behind us trailed a ghost who whispered poetry in my ear and teased a breeze to touch my cheek.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

A Beautiful verse takes birth when "U"n"I" VERSE.

Jak by powiedzia? Puszkin, s?u?ba muzom nie znosi po?piechu.

Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.