Quotes About Poetry

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.