Quotes About Poetry

I love playing with words and texture.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

I do think the barsThat kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...

You are the poemthat sticks in my throatteaching me to whisperwith the voice of my heart.

I've never seen beauty so devastatingas in the linesthat trace our hopeand fall from the stars.

I balance you on the end of my pen.Teetering between loveand letting go.

...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...

We walked through night until there was a poem.

To survive is to kindle the search for why survival matters. Technicians inevitably become philosophers. Or scientists. Or theologians. Or writers. Or composers. Or musicians. Or artists. Or poets. Or devotees of thousands of variations and combinations of systems of thought and creative expression that promise insight into the very questions that gnaw at our insides long after our stomachs are full.

Night is a hole in yesterday, and a tunnel into tomorrow. —Zensunni fire poetry

The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.