Quotes About Poetry

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.