Quotes About Poetry

I am unbalanced — but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad, with an offering, an offering… I burn the way money burns.

Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I'm borrowed, now I'm numb.

I am going to lose myself – or else, the chance is that poetry will save me.

and she wore gowns as lovely as kisses…

Aunque la lluvia maldiga la ventana/ hágase el poema

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

You are where you are, you don't have to judge it, although some of the old poems might be more interesting than some I might write tomorrow.

Like Mom, Zoe thought–like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.