Quotes About Poetry

Can I decline a nymph so divine? Her voice like a flute is dulcis; Her oculus bright, her manus white And soft, when I tacto, her pulse is. O how bella, my puella I'll kiss in secula seculorum; If I've luck, sir, she's my uxor, O dies benedictorum.

Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand, and a Hundred, score An Hundred, and a Thousand more.

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

Es una simple cuestión de estética. Eso es lo que se pretende: la belleza. No se trata de transmitir ideas. Eso era antes. Ahora se persigue... —El poeta agitó las manos en el aire—. La hermosura..., incluso en la muerte. Lo único que tiene importancia es eso: el arte. El arte por el arte. No existe institución, ni territorio, ni autoridad ni sentimiento que venga a imponernos una sola letra.

One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman's skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.

Observe this moment -how it convulses- The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy.

11 The uguisu or warbler, sometimes called the nightingale of Japan.

Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.

Voli pindarici! Voli pindarici! Ma per nulla non si diedero l'ali alle rondini, il guizzo al baleno, ed alla mente umana la sublime istantaneità del pensiero.

Divina poesia! - diss'egli togliendo gli occhi dal bel tramonto che omai si scolorava in un vago crepuscolo - chi primo si alzò con te nelle speranze infinite fu il vero consolatore dell'umanità. Per insegnare agli uomini la felicità bisognerebbe educarli poeti, non scienziati o anatomici.

Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

We will leap tall couplets in a single bound

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

In the even more congested times that await us, literature must aim at the maximum concentration of poetry and of thought.

This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!

passions, poetry and the ego have been seen as perpetual explosions? But if that's true, then so its its opposite; ever since that August when athe mushroom rose over cities reduced to a layer of ash, an age was born in which the explosion is symbolic only of absolute negation.

Sono convinto che scrivere prosa non dovrebbe essere diverso dallo scrivere poesia; in entrambi i casi è ricerca d'una espressione necessaria, unica, densa, concisa, memorabile.

La poesia è capace di "far entrare il mare in un bicchiere

Pitrè did in folklore what Verga had done in literature; he was the first folklorist to transcribe not only traditional motifs or linguistic usages, but the inner poetry of the stories.