Quotes About Poetry

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.