Quotes About Poetry

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?