Quotes About Poetry

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.