Quotes About Poetry

In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

I didn't decide to learn sign language, any more than I ever decided to enjoy a poem; it simply held me spellbound.

Roses are red, love; violets are blue. Birds in the heavens know I love you.

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.

Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that singers aren't singing, but shouting out loud. Where's the melody?

When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she got older, she began to hear words and songs in her head everywhere she went - songs she loved, like 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter, and her own words that sometimes tumbled out into poems.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.