Quotes About Poetry

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

The poetry is myself.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.