Quotes About Poetry

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.