Quotes About Poetry

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore...

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

A stone is frozen music

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.