Quotes About Poetry

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...

questo passato inimitabile che è l'infanzia di un poeta e di una poesia.

un grumo di orrore / e vivacchio fra i miei gatti / ruffiani»).

In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! 'tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting! Andrew Downing (nineteenth-century American horticulturalist)

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Every gray day swells in around you, gold bird. Sinister as the copperhead in thick russet pinestraw, that held-back surge of piled up desire. I think my hands were born to touch and weave with air your intricate dips, veers, blinks always take.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

campaign in poetry and govern in prose"—and

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.