Quotes About Poetry

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Some time later, she leaned over and kissed me. It felt just like all those songs and poems had promised it would. It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning.

You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.

Yo había tenido muchos enamoramientos. Unos fueron correspondidos, y otros—tal vez los más—no lo fueron. Estos últimos han predominado más en mi poesía, no sólo por más numerosos sino sobre todo porque inspira mucho más el amor desdichado que el amor feliz; y esto ha sido así en la poesía mundial.

Todo hombre es poeta. Olvidan hacer versos porque se dedican a hacer otras cosas, hacer dinero, por ejemplo.

Tenía una suave morenez, la piel del rostro muy tersa y tierna, que invitaba a ser besada, y los ojos negros muy luminosos—"la noche hecha luz

El amor seria una parada breve entre dos aislamientos. Hoy pienso en un tiempo final en común con una mujer, con la que coincidir como lo hacen las rimas, al término de una palabra.

Shakespeare refers to thoughts which "in their currents turn awry and lose the name of action." Perlsian poetry calls this "mind-fucking".

With only slight exaggeration one might say that he (Virgil) "discovered" the evening.

When he cannot sleep, he reads poetry to me. His deep voice covers the top half of my sky—

Like dreams and works of art, fantasies are far more than what they appear to be on the surface. They're complex psychic creations whose symbolic content mustn't be translated into literal intent. "Think poetry, not prose

Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.

La poesia, come il bene e il bello, è spesso contagiosa.

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, I believe we should listen to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.