Quotes About Poetry

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.