Quotes About Poetry

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Music is poetry with personality.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.