Quotes About Poetry

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.