Quotes About Poetry

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.