Quotes About Poetry

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Tengo miedo de creer que el amor es tan sólo un poema inventado por mí.

Debemos inquietarnos por curar las simientes, por vendar corazones y escribir el poema que a todos nos contagie.

Empecé a escribir poemas cuando descubrí que se podía querer a una persona que no era de tu familia, menuda sorpresa me llevé.

Cuando el mundo retrocede, la rima asoma. Cuando la vida aprieta, los versos repuntan.

Poetas, no perdamos el tiempo, trabajemos, que al corazón le llega poca sangre.

Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed moose Move.

It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen in love and he was held to it as though to the scene of a disaster. Time gives poetry to a battlefield.

Time gives poetry to a battlefield

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.

How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John Keats.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.