Quotes About Poetry

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ? ?

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.

Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.