Quotes About Poetry

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.