Quotes About Poetry

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

Poetry can magnify experience.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.