Quotes About Poetry

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.