Quotes About Poetry

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.