Quotes About Poetry

And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings.

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.

Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.

Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.

Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts.

Every pearl of your necklace touches my heart like a fresh flower of joy.

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

Give a poet a pen

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

De vez en cuando asistían a conciertos de música clásica india, donde Sonia aprendió sobre ragas (melodía clásica) y ghazals (poemas cantados en urdu)

Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.

They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn by any point, they quite naturally skidded along on a stagnent ground of poetry.

si vous voulez bien convenir que la poésie est la rupture (ou plutôt la rencontre au point de rupture) du visible et de l'invisible

All diese Ratschläge, die ich Dir gebe, sind vergeblich und töricht. Niemand wird sie befolgen können. Aber ich wollte nichts anderes als: Bei Gelegenheit Deiner Kunst ein Gedicht schreiben, dessen Inbrunst Dir in die Wangen steigt. Es handelte sich darum, Dich zu entflammen, nicht Dich zu lehren." -Genet (Der Seiltänzer)

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

les feuilles faisaient du bruit comme une robe de faille.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.