Quotes About Poetry

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

Poetry cannot be translation

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

The poetry of speech.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.