Quotes About Poetry

The human body can play music, kill germs, make a baby, recite poetry, and monitor the movement of stars all at the same time, because the field of infinite correlation is part of its information field.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Her pearled voice quiets a fountain. Even the silence, quiets.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

The poet does not use poetry, but is at the service of poetry. To use it is to misuse it.

I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more 'in their stride'--hides grow thicker. I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function, it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

When I am a woman — O, when I am a woman, my wells of salt brim and brim, poems force the lock of my throat.

and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Hennie read the last lines of the pamphlet: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" "That's Emma Lazarus," said Pa. "Is that her up there?" asked Hennie and pointed at Melinda Swanevelder in the Volvo. Pa said no, Emma Lazarus was an American poet. She wrote the poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty. The woman in the cab is Melinda Swanevelder. We found her in Vanderkloof.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.