Quotes About Poetry

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.