Quotes About Poetry

How beautiful you are, my darling. How very beautiful! Behind your veil, your eyes are like doves. Song of Songs 4:1

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

I am still able to recite long portions of Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman" at the slightest provocation.

American poet who wrote: "If Barley be wanting to make into malt

Así como la pintura se ha vuelto cada vez más conceptual, la poesía se ha definido cada vez más por su interés en lo visual.

A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

The disaster came so swiftly and so completely that there was, Ryan conceded, a certain poetry in its magnificence.

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

There are no poetry enshrined freighters on the sea now. It is a prosy life when we have no time to bid one another good morning.

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.

So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you at first. But eventually they might. Everybody writes too long and too much anyway, sacrificing significance for story. Truth be told, we all want to be poets.

Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast...

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.