Quotes About Poetry

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

To me, he is art, poetry for the eyes and heart. He is the most terrifyingly beautiful guy I have ever seen. And his scars have to tell a story...

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.