Quotes About Poetry

A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.

...the ear of the heart hears bluebirds...

Time catalogues heartbreak as love poetry.

The true poetry of Rome lived in its institutions... from such a rhythm and order in the shows of life, to those who were at once the poets and the actors of these immortal dramas... the consequence was empire, and the reward everlasting fame. These things are not the less poetry... They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men. The Past, like an inspired rhapsodist, fills the theatre of everlasting generations with their harmony.

...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams...

A horse is poetry in motion.

Aveva amato la poesia perché gli interessava la bellezza; ma da quando l'aveva incontrata gli si erano spalancate le porte sui territori sconfinati della poesia d'amore.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.

There is too much knowledge already in the world; we use facts as crutches, logic is deceit. I know a single system of communication: the declaiming of poetry.

officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improvised according to the meaning of the message. For a soldier, hearing the message was like learning a new verse to a song that he already knew. The

Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.

You are a veritable poet of desire

The beloved's features too were standardized in certain adjectives of color and shape and likened to natural objects, fruit and flowers especially. As a result, ingenuity in finding fresh ways to follow the pattern was required in addition to actual poetic powers. The challenge was great and it accounts for the quantity of verbal lovemaking in the blue, addressed to the remote or non-existent tribes of Celias and Delias.

he was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.

For he was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.

The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing … that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

La juventud lo aguanta todo: reyes bíblicos, poesía, amor... solo la vence el tiempo.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young. Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you. You will understand.

I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.