Quotes About Poetry

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.