Quotes About Poetry

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.