Quotes About Poetry

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

In the Fourth Eclogue also Vergil has still the enthusiasm of youth. Few poems are so rich in magnificent lines or in stirring hopes... His hope is for a golden age in which there shall be no toil, no commerce, no sorrow, yet he still wants a high development of the intellectual life, the speculations of science, the practical application of knowledge.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

I sat smiling wretchedly, my heart weeping for The Little Dog Laughed, for every well-turned phrase, for the little flecks of poetry through it, my first story, the best thing I could show for my whole life. It was the record of all that was good in me, approved and printed by the great J. C. Hackmuth, and she had torn it up and thrown it into a spittoon.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...

Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...

poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...

yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...

a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground...

at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...

some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense...

some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...

how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....