Quotes About Poetry

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

She like history . . . and wished the English teacher would ask the class to read history books. Instead the teacher was 'always' assigning poems.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

A Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

The Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?

O balances sentimentales.

Let him make rimes for the vultures.

Rinaldo wrote me a deathly song there, and keen was the stylus.

Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda

The meter itself demands a special vocabulary, for many combinations of long and short syllables that are common in the spoken language cannot be admitted to the line Ã¢â'¬â€any word with three consecutive short syllables, for example, any word with one short syllable between two longs. This difficulty was met by choosing freely among the many variations of pronunciation and prosody afforded by Greek dialectal differences; the epic language is a mixture of dialects." - Bernard Knox

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.