Quotes About Poetry

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

How could a thirteenth-century person have written such things? If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. On the other hand, why couldn't Rumi have said that?

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

we may say that reading Montaigne, Samuel Johnson, and Tolstoy enriches our understanding of reality, and therefore enlarges our capacity to enjoy life and enhances our adaptation to it. Shakespeare, Keats, and the other great poets reveal the inner nature of the world and sharpen our sensibilities because their perceptions and their gift for metaphor make it possible for us to transcend our own limited vision by sharing theirs.

In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

When the I AM THAT I AM made nothing And rested, which rest it certainly deserved, Night now accompanied day, and man Had his friend in the absence of the woman.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Beatriz. Me la quedé mirando, y me enamoré de ella. Neruda se rascó su plácida calvicie con el dorso del lápiz. -Tan rápido. -No, tan rápido no. Me la quedé mirando como diez minutos.

Åžairin dudaklar? bitkin bir tebessümle araland?. "Benim art?k doktora ihtiyac?m yok, oÄŸlum. Bana doÄŸrudan mezarc?y? yollasalar daha iyi ederler." "Öyle söylemeyin, üstat." "Mezarc?l?k iyi bir meslektir, Mario. Ä°nsan felsefe öÄŸrenir.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.

Beloved, Dearest One: How I long to shout to the world our happiness. I feel that you and I are the only two people alive in the world - the only people that know the secret meaning of existence. I have no diamond rings, no gifts of love that other lovers have for their beloved. My poetry is all I have to offer you. And so I dedicate my collected verses, 'Poems of Poverty,' to you, beloved. Morris.

BaÅŸkald?r? öncesiz ve sonras?z olarak bir tek aÅŸktan, ÅŸiirden doÄŸar.

Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee.