Quotes About Poetry

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Contrary to implicit tenets of the green movement, not all that is natural is beautiful, and not all that is beautiful is natural. Maybe that's why the world needs poets. Not to interpret what is plain and obvious, but to help us take pause and reflect on the beauty of people, places, and ideas—things we might otherwise take for granted. Simple beauty that emanates from simple truths.

intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.

Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

Written words can also sing.