Quotes About Poetry

La carga más pesada nos destroza, somos derribados por ella, nos aplasta contra la tierra. Pero en la poesía amatoria de todas las épocas la mujer desea cargar con el peso del cuerpo del hombre. La carga más pesada es por lo tanto, a la vez, la imagen de la más intensa plenitud de la vida. Cuanto más pesada sea la carga, más a ras de tierra estará nuestra vida, más real y verdadera será.

La poesía lírica es un territorio en el que cualquier afirmación se hace verdad.

O mais pesado dos fardos nos esmaga, verga-nos, comprime-nos contra o chão. Na poesia amorosa de todos os séculos, porém, a mulher deseja receber o fardo do corpo masculino. O mais pesado dos fardos é, portanto, ao mesmo tempo a imagem da realização vital mais intensa. Quanto mais pesado é o fardo, mais próxima da terra está nossa vida, e mais real e verdadeira ela é.

Poetry never plays a more important role than it does during revolutionary periods; poetry gave the revolution its voice and in return the revolution liberated poetry from isolation; the poet now knows he is being heard by the people, especially young people; for youth, poetry and revolution are one and the same.

The genius of lyric poetry is the genius of inexperience.

l'amour commence à l'instant où une femme s'inscrit par une parole dans notre mémoire poétique.

El sentido de la poesía no consiste en deslumbrarnos con una idea sorprendente, sino en hacer que un instante del ser sea inolvidable y digno de una nostalgia insoportable.

È™i Baudelaire scrie: "Trebuie s? fim veÈ™nic beÈ›i... de vin, de poezie sau de virtuÈ›i pe placul nostru..." Lirismul e o stare de beÈ›ie, È™i omul se îmbat? pentru a se contopi mai uÈ™or cu universul.

Åžair kendisini kuÅŸatan kederden söz ediyor;bu kederi kald?r?p uzaklara ta??mak,kederle ev kurmak istiyor,üç yüz y?ll???na oraya kapanmak ve üç yüz y?l boyunca kap?y? açmamak,kap?y? kimselere açmamak istiyor!

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

I call myself "The Love King" in all aspects. Poetically speaking, in the bedroom, I love, and in social conflict.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

I love the musicality of words.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.