Quotes About Poetry

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Life is a poem most people never read.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.