Quotes About Poetry

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Prophetic poetry has alway drawn me. . . . Prophecy is not ingratiating poetry, and I like that [Prophecy and Poetry, Out of the Garden ].

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

senseless, senseless coughs of emotion

So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.

Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! -and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?

with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.

I'll finish this poem in my next life.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

The poetry is like a rhythmic articulation of feeling." —Allen Ginsberg

I write poetry because my genes and chromosomes fall in love with young men not young women.

but I will die only for poetry, that will save the world

A word on Academies; poetry has been attacked by an ignorant & frightened bunch of bores who don't understand how it's made, & the trouble with these creeps is they wouldn't know Poetry if it came up and buggered them in broad daylight.

La generación Beat es sobre todo un movimiento espiritual.

If anybody wants a statement of values - it is this, that I am ready to die for poetry and for the truth that inspires poetry - and will do so in any case - as all men, wether they like it or not-.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

There was also something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper, or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

And if poetry is a bond between Two hearts, it is a bond too frail: That night words failed, I, too, was lost— To whiskey, memory, a photograph.

Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.

was once a young lady from Yale,'" said the Gasmask Man. "'Who had verses tattooed on her tail. And on her behind, for the sake of the blind, a duplicate version in braille.

I like 'Master Conspirator,'" said the Fireman. "That has a nice ring. A touch of poetry and darkness to it. If you could get killed for having the job, you should at least have the pleasures of an official title with some sex appeal.

You found yourself a librarian! I can help with the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.