Quotes About Poetry

O mundo só vai prestar Para nele se viver No dia em que a gente ver Um gato maltês casar Com uma alegre andorinha Saindo os dois a voar O noivo e sua noivinha Dom Gato e Dona Andorinha

We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

La historia de la poesía amorosa podría dividirse en poética del deseo, poética del objeto de deseo y poética de los sentimientos que acompañan al deseo.

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy. Yo sé los nombres extraños De las yerbas y las flores, Y de mortales engaños, Y de sublimes dolores. Yo

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy.

Mi verso es como un puñal que por el puño, echa flor

Aquí me pongo a cantar Al compás de la vigüela Que al hombre que lo desvela Una pena estrordinaria, Como la ave solitaria Con el cantar se consuela.

Repudian las cosas líricas porque obligan a pensamientos muy altos y a gestos demasiado dignos.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Because one does not write poetry in order to flatter and to lie. Well, they've called me a poet, but they'll never call me a fool.

Those who try to understand life, which, by definition, cannot be understood, are those who do not understand poetry, which is, in short, the only thing that can be understood.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Leave me in Granada in the middle of paradise where my soul wells with poetry; Leave me until my time comes and I may intone a fitting song. Yes, I want my memorial stone in this land. Granada! Holy place of the glory of Spain, Your mountains are the white tents of pavilions, Your walls are the circle of a vase of flowers, Your plain a Moorish shawl embroidered with colour, Your towers are palm trees that imprison you

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .

Horace, fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?" He paused, and then translated. "Whom have flowing cups not made eloquent?

Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life he took up verse making and even fell into "certain obscene words and composed brief writings, worthless and immodest, in fact bereft of all decency," before abandoning this shocking practice in favor of commentaries on the Scriptures.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Most things between a woman and a man cannot be understood, it's why people invented love poems, a way of filling in the silence.

Only on Sundays do you come across political scout troops with sandals, walking sticks, and knives. In the woods they do round dances, they rave about nature, and have big brawls with each other. It's a strange, baffling young generation. It covet's the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, but not his shy piety and love of nature.