Quotes About Poetry

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?