Quotes About Poetry

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.