Quotes About Poetry

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.