Quotes About Poetry

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.