Quotes About Poetry

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.