Quotes About Poetry

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.