Quotes About Poetry

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.