Quotes About Poetry

As John Ashbery once said, "Being a famous poet is the not the same thing as being famous.

Who had read my poems, who held my hand, who was dead before he could visit me in the hospital where he had been, too, landed, too, on his flights to heaven and drops into hell.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

You say love is just a four letter word.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.