Quotes About Poetry

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.