Quotes About Poetry

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Sweet, Dan thought. This is actually poetry I understand right away. And something that will be fun to do! Shakespeare was asking them to dig up his grave.

Epic poems were always best in French. Let's see. "Le troisième enfant dans les vêtements de ses ennemis

È acrobata come nei vecchi tempi era poetessa, perché la forma particolare dei suoi polmoni la obbliga a scegliersi un mestiere che stia tra cielo e terra.

Roses are red. Blood is too…