Quotes About Poetry

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse