Quotes About Poetry

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Poetry is the scholar's art.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour