Quotes About Poetry

Masum olmama arzular?nda masumdular. Kollar?nda bir kad?n varken masumdular. Kavga ve dövüÅŸte masumdular. Ezberden ÅŸiirler okurken masumdular. Masumca davran?rlarken masumdular. Hatta kan dökerlerken, iÅŸkence yaparlarken, tecavüz ederlerken ya da söverlerken bile, bir mübarek masumiyetin tehdidindeydiler – ve bunlar?n hepsi, masumluÄŸun içine düÅŸmemek içindi.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I am one who shares Saul Bellow's estimate of Hemingway rather than John Updike's. I could pick up any book of his and turn to any page and read and the poetry of his prose kills me.

It was either that or a sportswriter where I could document the poetry of athletics much the same as my idol, Jimmy Cannon.

There were record albums: classical, jazz, popular, the Caedmon Poets.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head.

And I will make thee beds of rosesAnd a thousand fragrant posies.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude—they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race. —HERB ELLIOTT,

Before setting out for their sunset runs, Jenn and Billy would snap a tape of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" into their Walkman. When running stopped being as fun as surfing, they had agreed, they'd quit. So to get that same surging glide, that same feeling of being lifted up and swept along, they ran to the rhythm of Beat poetry.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

This is not intended as a record or a chronicle, but the poetry of fossils, a reminiscence of the end of civilization. The dinosaurs left behind almost no trace of themselves. A few bones preserved in the amber, the contents of their stomachs, their waste. I only hope that we may leave behind something more than they did.

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

Models of style: the swearword, the telegram, the epitaph.

Each man is his own poem, Levi. Keep yours a good one.

Yo, poeta de oficio, condenada tantas veces

Mis desequilibradas palabras son el lujo de mi silencio.