Quotes About Poetry

No hace falta que lo diga si le da vergüenza, porque los varones somos así y la testosterona no alienta al verso.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

I have lost you, my brother And your death has ended The spring season Of my happiness, our house is buried with you And buried the laughter that you taught me. There are no thoughts of love nor of poems In my head Since you died.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.

A friend of mine tells a story about some Israeli students who were called up in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As soon as they were notified, they went back to their rooms at University, and each packed his gear, a rifle, and a book of Yehuda Amichai's poems.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.