Quotes About Poetry

I love you, Jean-Claude; I wouldn't know what to do without you in my life, my bed, my heart.' 'Very poetic for you, ma petite.' 'I've

For I shall bring you crimson leaves And rippling wheat in golden sheaves; A cache of berries, red and sweet, And dappled deer on silent feet. - Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby, Americanus: A Masque in Three Parts

This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

She flushed a becoming pink during the ceremony; her green eyes moistened and shimmered like the calm and prosperous ocean.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl with gentle lips and strong hands.

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

Haiku's such a bore / Sheer pretentious balderdash / Stick it in your hat.

And so we've had another night Of poetry and poses And each man knows he'll be alone When the sacred ginmill closes. —DAVE VAN RONK

In India when I was a boy they had great big green lizards there, and if you shouted or shot them their tails would fall off. There was only one boy in the school who could catch lizards intact. No one knew quite how he did it. He had a special soft way of going up to them, and he'd bring them back with their tails on. That strikes me as the best analogy I can give you. To try and catch your poem without its tail falling off.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

loveliness is infernally sad.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize