Quotes About Poetry

Yes, you are right, those of us who are known to everyone today are romantics. We are. We are poets. But we are individuals, with an immense faith in the individual and a love of the individual.

And not having had any true gods of my own, I speak of all gods as if they were poetry.

I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.

Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.

She was quite the reader of books, that I can tell you. She knew so much poetry. She was always quoting this or that verse in an off-handed manner. I try to remember the things she quotes, the poets she loved.

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.

la scienza discende dalla poesia, perché la metafora è alla base di ogni descrizione scientifica. Solo

What could thesee words mean to her? They must have sounded like old poetry. How could I expect her to grasp what I had said.

What could these words mean to her? They must have sounded like old poetry. How could I expect her to grasp what I had said.

Puede que en definitiva todas las canciones sean un lamento, un grito organizado.

La poesía debería tomarse en pequeñas dosis. Nadie necesita poesía. Nadie necesita obligarse a leerla.

All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.

The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.

In fact, determination is precisely what's needed to write poetry or create art. Determination of the will opens the door for us to trust ourselves enough to actually find the words.

Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.

You hair looks verily like spun gold, he said, and then laughed. I sound like every smitten lover since the world was green. Why must the language of love be so threadbare? There ought to be a way to tell you how I feel without evoking so many echoes, so many ghosts.

The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote that once in a lifetime hope and history can rhyme. Evolution is what happens when history and change are in rhyme.

Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.

The fear of poetry was multicultural and timeless.

Why do poets think They can change the world? The only life I can save Is my own.

The music of my youth was much better Than the music of yours. So was the weather. ... Back then, people wrote gorgeous letters And read more poetry. So did the weather. ... Of all issues, there was only one dissenter, But we loved him, too. So did the weather. ... We were guitar-players and inventors Of minor chords and antibiotics. So was the weather. From Terminal Nostalgia

As the great poet wrote, 'To thine own self be true.'…What? You don't think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet is one of my faves. (Zeth) I'm not touching that one with tongs and a gas mask. (Jericho)

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.