Quotes About Poetry

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Pourquoi les poëtes parlent-ils mieux que moi de moi même? Je suis furieuse de na pas voir sortir de ma plume de ces phrases admirables qui sont une fin en soi. je scrute, je scrute les vers de poëtes, sûre de découvrir leur secret, sûre de trouver un jour moi aussi la clef de ce langage magique.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down.... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Your lips, beloved, taste like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue.

Adieu to those more cheerful hours, Spent amid Spring's unfolding flowers, Or Summer's soothing shade; A few short weeks--and then adieu To fields and groves of changeful hue, By Autumn's hand array'd!

Yet not the lily nor the rose, Though fairer far they be, Can more delightful thoughts disclose Than I derive from thee.

Hazel said novels was better value than poetry books because they had more words in them, poetry books was a rip-off (Winsome doesn't think Hazel should be in their reading group)

her body will free-up itself from the up-tightness of city life and she's going to walk with more lyricalness

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter's speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk.

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn't mean it to. If she could, she'd let him bear her secret. She'd let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they'd remember how it feels to be inhabited.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your passion, until you no longer know how to sit with your back against a tree and write poetry that no one will ever see.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side by side and chat away together all night... great profound speculations which make the old world creak on its rusty hinges.

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

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Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.