Quotes About Poetry

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.